Vostok-2M from Plesetsk Site 43/4 launched Meteor-2-5, a Soviet polar-orbiting meteorological satellite providing cloud-cover and weather imaging for the Meteor-2 operational weather constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 67th
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 31 October 1979, 09:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1979-095
- Launches in 1979
- 99th of 110
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