Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk launched Meteor-2 No. 13, a Soviet civil meteorological satellite collecting cloud-cover and weather data from low Earth orbit for the national hydrometeorological service.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 40th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 26 December 1985, 01:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1985-119
- Launches in 1985
- 123rd of 125
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