Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk launched Meteor-2 No. 12, a second-generation Soviet meteorological satellite providing cloud imagery and weather data from polar LEO for the Soviet Hydrometeorological Service.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 31st
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 6 February 1985, 21:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1985-013
- Launches in 1985
- 13th of 125
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