Kosmos 1803 (Geo-IK #8 / Musson #8), a Soviet LEO geodetic satellite launched on a Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk. It mapped Earth's shape and surface with radar altimetry, Doppler, ranging, and laser reflectors to support military and civil geodesy.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T
- Flight
- 50th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 2 December 1986, 07:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1986-094
- Launches in 1986
- 101st of 110
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