Soyuz U launched a Resurs-F1 Earth-observation satellite from Plesetsk to photograph natural resources and environmental conditions for the Soviet/Russian civil space program; its film capsule returned to Earth about two weeks later.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 588th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 19 August 1992, 10:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1992-056
- Launches in 1992
- 57th of 97
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