Oreol 3 (Aureole 3 / ARCAD 3), a joint Soviet–French Interkosmos magnetosphere-ionosphere research satellite, launched on a Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk Site 32/1 into a near-polar elliptical orbit to study auroral and high-latitude coupling.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 21 September 1981, 13:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1981-094
- Launches in 1981
- 96th of 126
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