Meteor-1 9 (Meteor-M), a Soviet first-generation polar-orbiting weather satellite carrying TV and infrared imaging instruments for cloud and Earth-surface observations. Vostok-2M (8A92M) from Plesetsk LC-43/4 inserted it into sun-synchronous LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.3 T
- Flight
- 22nd
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 16 July 1971, 01:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1971-059
- Launches in 1971
- 65th of 133
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