January 12. "Kosmos-1990" Landsat satellite "Resurs F2". Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation; survey of seismically active regions of the country, including the Armenian SSR, in the interests of industrial and non -industrial construction.  January 26. "Kosmos-1992" military Store-dump satellite "Strela-2M". February 10. "Kosmos-1994" - "Kosmos-1999" military Store-dump satellite "Strela-3". February 10. "Kosmos-2000" Landsat satellite "Resurs F2". Investigation of the natural resources of the Earth in the interests of various branches of the Soviet economy and international cooperation; space-based survey of the central part of Antarctica for purposes of mapping inaccessible regions of that continent. February 14. "Kosmos-2001" early warning satellite "Oko".  February 14. "Kosmos-2002" released 10 "Romb" radar calibration subsatellites. February 17. "Kosmos-2003" military cartographic satellite "Zenit 8"; returned film capsule.  February 22. "Kosmos-2004" military navigation satellite "Parus".   February 28. "Meteor 2-18" weather satellite. Gathering meteorological information and data on penetrating radiation fluxes in circumterrestrial space. March 2. "Kosmos-2005" high resolution photo reconnaissance satellite "Yantar 4K1"; returned film in two small SpK capsules during the mission and with the main capsule at completion of the mission. March 16. "Kosmos-2006" military cartographic satellite "Zenit 8"; returned film capsule.  March 24. "Kosmos-2008" - "Kosmos-2015". Eight military store-dump satellites "Strela-1M"  launched by a single carrier rocket. April 4. "Kosmos-2016" military navigation satellite "Parus". April 6. "Kosmos-2017" military cartographic satellite "Zenit 8". April 14. "Raduga 23" military communication satellite. Stationed at 336 deg E. Provision of telephone and telegraph radio-communications and television broadcasting. Positioned in geosynchronous orbit at 25 deg W in 1989-1995; 44 deg E in 1995-1996 Last known longitude (4 September 2001) 53.34 deg E drifting at 0.294 deg W per day. April 20. "Kosmos-2018" high resolution photo reconnaissance satellite "Yantar-4K1"; returned film in two small SpK capsules during the mission and with the main capsule at completion of the mission. April 26. "Foton 5" Materials processing satellite. Space materials research (production of enhanced performance semiconductors and especially pure biologically active substances in microgravity conditions). Jointly with France. May, Iraq. The "Baby Babylon" was completed at Jabal Hamrayn, 145 km north of Baghdad. The horizontally-mounted gun was 45-m long with a 350 mm barrel, and had a total mass of 102 tonnes. Following tests using lead projectiles the gun was reassembled on a hillside at a 45 degree angle. It was expected to achieve a range of 750 km. One of the planned missions for the prototype gun was as an anti-satellite weapon. It would launch a special shell in space that would explode near the target satellite, covering it with sticky material and blinding it. May 5. "Kosmos-2019" military cartographic satellite "Zenit 8".  May 25. "Resurs F-01" Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the Soviet economy and international cooperation. Satellite carries two passive separable "Pion" probes to investigate upper atmospheric density.  June 1. "Kosmos-2025" military cartographic satellite "Zenit 8". June 7. "Kosmos-2026" military navigation satellite "Parus". June 8. "Molniya 3-35" Operation of the long-range telephone and telegraph radio communications system in the USSR; transmission of USSR Central Television programs to stations in the "Orbita" network and within the framework of international cooperation. June 9. "Okean O1" satellite.  "Tsyklon 3" booster stage 3 failure. June 14. "Kosmos-2027" calibration satellite "Taifun-1". Radar calibration mission. June 27. "Resurs F-02". Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation. July 4. "Nadezhda 1" civilian maritime navigation satellite " Tsikada-Kospas". Signals at 150,00 MHz and 400.00 MHz. Carried COSPAS/SARSAT search and rescue package. Location of vessels in the Soviet merchant marine and fishing fleet; work within the international space search and rescue system for locating vessels and aircraft in distress. July 5. "Kosmos-2029" military cartographic satellite "Zenit 8"; returned film capsule. Also investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation. July 12. "Kosmos-2030" high resolution photo reconnaissance satellite "Yantar-4K1".  Spacecraft failed. Blown up in orbit on July 28. July 18. "Resurs F-03" Deployed "Pion 3" & "Pion 4". Resurs-F: Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the Soviet economy and international cooperation. Satellite carries two passive separable "Pion" probes to investigate upper atmospheric density.  July 20. "Kosmos-2032" military cartographic satellite "Zenit 8". July 25. "Kosmos-2034" Military navigation satellite "Parus". August 2. "Kosmos-2035" military cartographic satellite "Zenit 8". August 15. "Resurs F-04" Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation. August 22. "Kosmos-2036" military cartographic satellite "Zenit 8". August 28. "Kosmos-2037" geodetic satellite "Geo-IK". September 6. "Resurs F-05" Carried W. German microgravity experiment. Investigation of the natural resources of the Earth in the interests of the Soviet economy and international cooperation; and the conduct of biotechnological experiments under a commercial agreement with the firm "Interspace" (Federal Republic of Germany). September 14. "Kosmos-2038" - "Kosmos-2043" military Store-dump satellites "Strela 3". September 15. "Kosmos-2044" ("Bion"). 29 US/USSR life science experiments conducted on monkeys, insects, plants, fish, rats. Carried monkeys Zhankonya and Zabiyaka. "Kosmos 2044" was the seventh Soviet Biosatellite to orbit the Earth with joint US/USSR experiments onboard. Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Canada, Poland, Britain, Romania, Czechoslovakia and the European Space Agency also participated in the mission. The joint US/USSR experiments were conducted on two rhesus monkeys and ten rats that were flown onboard the Biosatellite. The biological payload on the spacecraft also included fish, amphibians, insects, worms, protozoans, cell cultures and plants. Last launch from LC 41.