The Foton 6 recoverable materials-science satellite, carrying furnace experiments to grow semiconductors and biological crystals in microgravity plus France's Gezon experiment and European Biopan life-science payloads; recovered after 15 days.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.8 T (est.)
- Flight
- 559th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 11 April 1990, 17:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Materials Science
- International designator
- 1990-032
- Launches in 1990
- 34th of 121
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