Launched Resurs F-06, an Earth-resources reconnaissance satellite (Resurs-F1 s/n 50) for a 16-day film-return mission studying natural resources and ecology, also carrying commercial West German biotechnology experiments.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 564th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 29 May 1990, 07:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1990-047
- Launches in 1990
- 49th of 121
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