Launched Cosmos 2175, a Yantar-4K2 photographic reconnaissance satellite, from Plesetsk — the first satellite launch conducted by the newly formed Russian Federation after the Soviet collapse.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 582nd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 21 January 1992, 15:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1992-001
- Launches in 1992
- 1st of 97
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