Tsiklon-2 from Baikonur launched Cosmos 1771, a nuclear-powered US-A (RORSAT) radar ocean reconnaissance satellite that tracked naval vessels for the Soviet Navy from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.3 T
- Flight
- 75th
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 20 August 1986, 12:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1986-062
- Launches in 1986
- 67th of 110
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