Zenit-2 from Baikonur successfully orbited Kosmos 1697, an EPN 03.0694 Tselina-2 mass simulator used to qualify the Zenit-2 vehicle after two prior flight failures earlier in 1985.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 35 Zenit-2 flights
- Date and time
- 22 October 1985, 07:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1985-097
- Launches in 1985
- 100th of 125
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