Tsyklon-3 from Plesetsk Site 32/2 launched Kosmos 1045, a Meteor-2 mass model (GVM) for launcher validation, plus Radio Sputnik 1 and 2 (RS-1/RS-2), the first Soviet amateur radio satellites.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 5th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 26 October 1978, 07:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1978-100
- Launches in 1978
- 104th of 128
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