Deployed a Resurs-F1 Earth-imaging satellite carrying a recoverable film capsule for high-resolution photographic mapping, a dual civil-military reconnaissance program flown recurrently on Soyuz-U through the 1990s.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 631st
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 18 November 1997, 11:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1997-072
- Launches in 1997
- 75th of 89
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