Kosmos 972 (EPN 03.0380 #3), a Tselina-D dynamic mass simulator used to qualify the Tsiklon-3 launch vehicle. Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk Site 32/2 placed the test payload into LEO on an early operational evaluation flight of the three-stage booster.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 27 December 1977, 08:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1977-123
- Launches in 1977
- 129th of 130
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