Kosmos 100 (Meteor No.3), a Soviet experimental weather satellite and the 100th spacecraft launched under the Kosmos designation. Vostok-2M 8A92M from Baikonur LC-31/6 placed it in LEO on 17 December 1965 for cloud-cover and meteorological observations.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 17 December 1965, 02:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1965-106
- Launches in 1965
- 117th of 124
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