Meteor-3 1, the first successful third-generation Soviet meteorological satellite, launched on a Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk into a near-polar orbit. It carried TV imagers, infrared radiometers, and radiation sensors for weather monitoring.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.8 T
- Flight
- 37th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 24 October 1985, 02:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1985-100
- Launches in 1985
- 104th of 125
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