A Vostok-2M booster launched India's IRS-1B Earth-observation satellite from Baikonur for ISRO, carrying LISS-1 and LISS-2 imaging sensors for resource mapping. It was the final flight of the Vostok-2M rocket before Soviet launch operations standardized on the Soyuz-U family.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 990 kg
- Flight
- 93rd
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 29 August 1991, 06:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1991-061
- Launches in 1991
- 63rd of 91
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