Soyuz-U launched Kosmos 2284, a Yantar-based Kometa-class geodetic and topographic-mapping satellite, from Baikonur into a near-circular low Earth orbit for high-precision cartographic imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 605th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 29 July 1994, 09:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1994-044
- Launches in 1994
- 47th of 93
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