Tsyklon-2 from Baikonur Site 90 launched Kosmos 1249, a US-A (RORSAT) nuclear-powered active radar ocean-reconnaissance satellite that used a BES-5 reactor to detect and track naval surface ships from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.3 T
- Flight
- 45th
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 5 March 1981, 18:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1981-021
- Launches in 1981
- 22nd of 126
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