Kosmos 1589, a Geo-IK (Musson #5) geodetic satellite for the Soviet military, launched on a Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk into low Earth orbit to map Earth’s gravity field and improve geodetic data used for missile targeting.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T
- Flight
- 25th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 8 August 1984, 12:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1984-084
- Launches in 1984
- 84th of 129
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