Carried Kosmos 2086, a Zenit-8 (Oblik #93) film-return photo-reconnaissance satellite built for Soviet military cartographic surveillance, continuing a program that also gathered imagery for the USSR's civilian earth-resources needs.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 567th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 20 July 1990, 08:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1990-062
- Launches in 1990
- 65th of 121
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