Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk launched Cosmos 1707, a Tselina-D electronic intelligence satellite for Soviet military SIGINT, monitoring foreign radio and radar emitters from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.8 T
- Flight
- 39th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 12 December 1985, 15:51 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1985-113
- Launches in 1985
- 117th of 125
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