Soyuz-U launched the classified Kosmos 2305 satellite from Baikonur — a 6,600 kg Yantar-4KS1 electro-optical reconnaissance satellite for the Russian military, which relayed imagery via Potok/Geizer relay spacecraft rather than returning film capsules like earlier Yantar variants.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 608th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 29 December 1994, 11:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1994-088
- Launches in 1994
- 92nd of 93
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