Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk lofted the six-satellite Strela-3 store-and-dump military communications constellation Kosmos 1690–1695 for the Soviet armed forces from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 36th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 9 October 1985, 21:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1985-094
- Launches in 1985
- 97th of 125
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