Meteor-1 No. 11 (23L), a Soviet operational meteorological satellite for cloud-cover and weather imaging. Vostok-2M (8A92M) from Plesetsk Site 41/1 placed the craft in LEO on 30 March 1972 for civil Earth-observation weather service.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.3 T
- Flight
- 25th
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 30 March 1972, 14:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1972-022
- Launches in 1972
- 23rd of 113
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