Meteor-2 No.8, a Soviet polar-orbiting meteorological satellite. Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk Site 32/1 placed the weather craft in high LEO for global cloud-cover imaging and temperature sounding—an early Meteor-2 flight on Tsiklon-3.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 13th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 25 March 1982, 09:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1982-025
- Launches in 1982
- 26th of 129
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