Soyuz-U launched the classified Kosmos 2259 photoreconnaissance satellite, a Yantar-4K2 (Kobalt) type built for high-resolution film-return imaging, from Plesetsk. The satellite failed roughly ten days into its mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 30th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 14 July 1993, 16:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1993-045
- Launches in 1993
- 46th of 83
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