Soyuz-U-PVB launched the Foton 7 recoverable materials-science satellite from Plesetsk, carrying joint German and French microgravity experiments including ESA's first protein-crystallization payload, during a roughly 15.5-day flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 23rd
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 4 October 1991, 18:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Materials Science
- International designator
- 1991-070
- Launches in 1991
- 73rd of 91
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