Meteor-2 1, the first second-generation Soviet Meteor weather satellite, launched on a Vostok-2M from Plesetsk into polar LEO for VIS/IR imaging and space-environment monitoring.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 40th
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 11 July 1975, 04:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1975-064
- Launches in 1975
- 68th of 132
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