Meteor-2 No.6, a Soviet polar-orbiting meteorological satellite carrying imaging and radiation instruments for operational weather observation. Vostok-2M (8A92M) from Plesetsk Site 43/3 placed the craft in LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 73rd
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 9 September 1980, 11:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1980-073
- Launches in 1980
- 75th of 108
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