Kosmos 1300 (Tselina-D), a Soviet electronic-intelligence satellite. Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk Site 32/1 placed the ELINT craft in near-polar LEO to collect and characterize foreign radar and communications signals.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.8 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 24 August 1981, 21:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1981-082
- Launches in 1981
- 84th of 126
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