Carried Resurs-F No. 7, a Resurs-F2 recoverable Earth-resources satellite, into low orbit from Plesetsk aboard a Soyuz-U-PVB. Over a roughly 30-day mission the film-return capsule photographed the USSR's territory for natural-resource and environmental survey work before reentering in mid-August 1990.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.5 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 17 July 1990, 09:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1990-060
- Launches in 1990
- 63rd of 121
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