Soyuz-U-PVB launched Kosmos 2120, a Zenit-8 short-duration Earth-observation satellite carrying film-return cameras, from Plesetsk on a roughly three-week mission before its capsule returned to Earth.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 16th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 26 December 1990, 11:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1990-115
- Launches in 1990
- 120th of 121
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