Kosmos 156 (Meteor-1 No.7), a Soviet experimental meteorological satellite launched on a Vostok-2M from Plesetsk into LEO to image cloud cover and support the first Soviet weather-forecasting satellite network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 27 April 1967, 12:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1967-039
- Launches in 1967
- 43rd of 139
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