Meteor-2 No.7, a Soviet second-generation meteorological satellite for operational weather imaging and sounding. Vostok-2M (8A92M) from Plesetsk Site 43/3 placed the craft in near-polar LEO for long-duration Earth observation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 76th
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 14 May 1981, 21:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1981-043
- Launches in 1981
- 45th of 126
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