Soyuz-U2 launched Cosmos 2101, the second Orlets-1 (Don) long-duration photoreconnaissance satellite, a roughly 6,700 kg Soviet military film-return spacecraft built to stay on orbit far longer than earlier Yantar-class satellites.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 44th
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 1 October 1990, 11:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1990-087
- Launches in 1990
- 91st of 121
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