Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk launched Kosmos 1626, a Tselina-D electronic-intelligence (SIGINT) satellite that monitored radio emissions from low Earth orbit for the Soviet military.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.8 T
- Flight
- 30th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 24 January 1985, 16:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1985-009
- Launches in 1985
- 9th of 125
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
View satellites in Space Atlas