Resurs-F13, a Soviet Earth-resources reconnaissance satellite nearly identical to Resurs-F10, launched aboard a Soyuz-U from Plesetsk to photograph the USSR's land and natural resources for economic and environmental study, returning film after about 30 days.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.5 T
- Flight
- 22nd
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 21 August 1991, 10:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1991-058
- Launches in 1991
- 60th of 91
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