Tsiklon-2 from Baikonur lofted Kosmos 1818 (Plasma-A No. 1), a technology spacecraft testing a Topaz-1 nuclear reactor and SPT-70 plasma thrusters for future US-A RORSAT systems, also mapping Earth's magnetic field.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.6 T
- Flight
- 76th
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 1 February 1987, 23:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1987-011
- Launches in 1987
- 11th of 114
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