Vostok-2M from Plesetsk launched Meteor-2 No.9, a Soviet operational meteorological satellite providing cloud-cover and Earth-observation data from low Earth orbit for the Hydrometeorological Service.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 85th
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 14 December 1982, 22:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1982-116
- Launches in 1982
- 123rd of 129
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