Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk placed Meteor-2 15 into polar LEO, a second-generation Soviet meteorological satellite with VIS/IR scanners and radiometers for weather imaging and radiation measurements.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 53rd
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 5 January 1987, 01:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1987-001
- Launches in 1987
- 1st of 114
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