Soyuz-U launched Kosmos 2243 (Yantar-1KFT No. 16), a Soviet/Russian Ministry of Defense cartographic mapping satellite, from Baikonur; its film-return capsule deorbited after about nine days.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 596th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 27 April 1993, 10:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1993-028
- Launches in 1993
- 28th of 83
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