Kosmos 1612, the first Meteor-3 weather satellite prototype, launched on a Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk. Third-stage reignition failed, leaving the craft stranded in an unusable orbit; a Kosmos designation was assigned after the failure.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.8 T
- Flight
- 28th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 27 November 1984, 14:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1984-120
- Launches in 1984
- 120th of 129
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