A Zenit-2 rocket launched from Baikonur carrying Russia's Meteor-3M N1 weather satellite, which also hosted NASA's SAGE III instrument to study stratospheric aerosols and ozone. The heavier Zenit vehicle was used instead of Tsiklon-3 to accommodate extra piggyback payloads.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3 T
- Flight
- 34th
- of 35 Zenit-2 flights
- Date and time
- 10 December 2001, 17:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2001-056
- Launches in 2001
- 57th of 59
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