Interkosmos 20 (AUOS-Z-R-P-IK), an international Earth-science satellite studying the magnetosphere, ionosphere, and ocean/atmosphere interface with Czechoslovak, East German, Hungarian, and Romanian participation. Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/2.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 995 kg
- Flight
- 212th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 1 November 1979, 08:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1979-096
- Launches in 1979
- 100th of 110
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