Deployed Cosmos 2231, a Yantar-4K1 film-return photo-reconnaissance satellite, for Russian military strategic surveillance; returned imagery via small recoverable capsules during its roughly two-month mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 594th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 19 January 1993, 14:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1993-004
- Launches in 1993
- 4th of 83
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