Feb 10 1989

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Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)

The Soviet Union launched a cluster of six Cosmos satellites aboard a Cyclone launch vehicle, including an Antarctic observer spacecraft that was placed into near-polar orbit, the Tass News Agency reported. The Cosmos 2000 satellite was described as a photo-reconnaissance research satellite that would photograph unexplored regions of central Antarctica. (SSR 1989A-G; UPI, Feb 11/89)

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