Kosmos 1766, the first operational Okean-O1 oceanographic satellite, launched on a Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk. Carrying side-looking radar, microwave radiometers, and multispectral scanners, it monitored sea ice, ocean surface, and Arctic waters for the USSR.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 47th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 28 July 1986, 21:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1986-055
- Launches in 1986
- 60th of 110
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