Soyuz U launched Cosmos 2099, a roughly 6,300 kg Soviet military cartographic photo-surveillance satellite, from Plesetsk to photograph Earth's surface for mapping purposes before its film capsule was returned.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 568th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 31 August 1990, 08:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1990-080
- Launches in 1990
- 84th of 121
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