Kosmos 785 (US-A #11), a Soviet nuclear-powered radar ocean reconnaissance satellite (RORSAT) for tracking naval surface ships. Tsyklon-2 from Baikonur Site 90/19 placed the craft in LEO for active radar maritime surveillance.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 21st
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 12 December 1975, 12:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1975-116
- Launches in 1975
- 122nd of 132
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