Zenit-2 from Baikonur launched Cosmos 1714, a Tselina-2 ELINT satellite; a launch anomaly left the spacecraft in an incorrect, short-lived orbit rather than its planned SIGINT regime (partial failure).
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 4th
- of 35 Zenit-2 flights
- Date and time
- 28 December 1985, 09:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1985-121
- Launches in 1985
- 125th of 125
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