Launched Kosmos 2260, a Zenit-8 (Oblik) military cartographic satellite, from Plesetsk. The 6,300 kg film-return spacecraft photographed Soviet territory for topographic mapping and area surveillance before its capsule was recovered after a two-week mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 31st
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 22 July 1993, 08:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1993-047
- Launches in 1993
- 48th of 83
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