Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk launched Cosmos 1809 (Ionozond-E / AUOS-Z-I-E), a Soviet scientific satellite investigating the ionosphere and radio-wave propagation from a ~950 km polar orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T
- Flight
- 52nd
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 18 December 1986, 08:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1986-101
- Launches in 1986
- 108th of 110
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