Carried Kosmos 2240, a Yantar-4K1 film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Russian military, from Plesetsk into a low, highly elliptical orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 595th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 2 April 1993, 14:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1993-021
- Launches in 1993
- 21st of 83
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