Soyuz-U launched the Foton 11 capsule from Plesetsk, carrying microgravity materials-science and biology experiments in low Earth orbit for about two weeks before parachute recovery.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 630th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 9 October 1997, 17:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 1997-060
- Launches in 1997
- 62nd of 89
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