Foton 8, a recoverable microgravity research satellite derived from the Zenit/Vostok design, carried joint German-Russian materials-science experiments launched from Plesetsk before its capsule returned to Earth.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 590th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 8 October 1992, 19:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Materials Science
- International designator
- 1992-065
- Launches in 1992
- 67th of 97
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