Launched the Progress M-40 cargo spacecraft to resupply the Mir space station, docking with the Kvant-1 module two days later; it also carried the Sputnik 41 amateur radio satellite and the Znamya 2.5 solar-mirror experiment, which failed to deploy.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9.8 T (est.)
- Flight
- 637th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 25 October 1998, 04:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1998-062
- Launches in 1998
- 67th of 82
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