Soyuz-U2 launched the uncrewed Progress M-5 cargo spacecraft from Baikonur to resupply the Mir space station with fuel, water, and supplies for its resident crew.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9.9 T
- Flight
- 43rd
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 27 September 1990, 10:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1990-085
- Launches in 1990
- 89th of 121
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