Kosmos 2171, a Yantar-4K2 (Kobalt) photoreconnaissance satellite, launched from Plesetsk on a Soyuz-U rocket.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 580th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 20 November 1991, 19:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1991-078
- Launches in 1991
- 81st of 91
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