Soyuz-U-PVB launched from Plesetsk orbited Kosmos 2089, a Yantar-4K2 Kobalt film-return photoreconnaissance satellite used by Soviet military intelligence to capture high-resolution imagery for later recovery on Earth.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 13th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 3 August 1990, 19:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1990-069
- Launches in 1990
- 72nd of 121
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