Vostok-2M (8A92M) from Plesetsk Site 43/4 launched Meteor-2-4, a Soviet polar-orbiting meteorological satellite providing cloud-cover imaging and atmospheric sounding for operational weather forecasting.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 63rd
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 1 March 1979, 18:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1979-021
- Launches in 1979
- 22nd of 110
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