Meteor-2 2, the second Soviet second-generation meteorological satellite with VIS/IR scanners and radiometers for weather imaging, launched on a Vostok-2M from Plesetsk Site 43/3 into a ~850–950 km polar LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 49th
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 6 January 1977, 23:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1977-002
- Launches in 1977
- 2nd of 130
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