Vostok 8A92M from Plesetsk Site 43/4 launched Meteor-2 No. 3, a Soviet second-generation polar-orbit weather satellite providing operational cloud imaging and meteorological data for the Hydrometeorological Service.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 55th
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 14 December 1977, 09:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1977-117
- Launches in 1977
- 123rd of 130
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