Kosmos 1286, a US-P (US-PM) ocean electronic-intelligence satellite for Soviet naval reconnaissance. Tsiklon-2 from Baikonur Site 90 placed the ELINT craft in LEO to detect and track Western naval radar and communications; operated until October 1982.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T
- Flight
- 49th
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 4 August 1981, 08:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1981-072
- Launches in 1981
- 74th of 126
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