Orbited Kosmos 2136, a Soviet military cartographic satellite built on the Zenit-8 bus with a film-return capsule; it operated for about two weeks before deorbiting on 20 March 1991.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 18th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 6 March 1991, 15:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1991-016
- Launches in 1991
- 16th of 91
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