Soyuz-U launched Kosmos 2055, a Zenit-8 (Oblik) photo-reconnaissance satellite, from Plesetsk into low Earth orbit for Soviet military intelligence gathering.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 555th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 17 January 1990, 14:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1990-003
- Launches in 1990
- 3rd of 121
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