Meteor-1 1 (12L), the first Soviet meteorological satellite publicly designated Meteor after earlier Kosmos prototypes, launched on a Vostok-2M (8A92M) from Plesetsk with TV, IR, and radiation-budget sensors for weather imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.3 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 26 March 1969, 12:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1969-029
- Launches in 1969
- 34th of 125
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