Kosmos 2121, a Zenit-8 military cartographic satellite, launched from Plesetsk to photograph terrain for Soviet mapmaking, returning its film capsule after roughly three weeks in orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 17th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 17 January 1991, 10:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1991-004
- Launches in 1991
- 4th of 91
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