A Soyuz-U-PVB rocket launched a Resurs-F1 Earth-resources satellite from Plesetsk to photograph Soviet territory for cartography, agriculture, and ecological monitoring before its film-return capsule was recovered.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 578th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 23 July 1991, 09:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1991-052
- Launches in 1991
- 54th of 91
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