Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk Site 32/2 launched Kosmos 1076 (Okean-E #1), the first Soviet dedicated oceanographic satellite, carrying instruments to observe sea surface, ice, and ocean conditions from polar LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.7 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 12 February 1979, 13:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1979-011
- Launches in 1979
- 11th of 110
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