Tsyklon-3 from Plesetsk launched Kosmos 1312 (Geo-IK #2 / Musson #2), the first successful Soviet second-generation geodetic satellite for Earth-shape and surface-mapping measurements used in missile targeting.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 30 September 1981, 08:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1981-098
- Launches in 1981
- 100th of 126
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