Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk lofted Kosmos 1823 (Geo-IK/Musson No. 9), a Soviet geodetic satellite supporting regional geodetic networks, radar altimetry, and laser ranging from roughly 1,500 km LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 55th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 20 February 1987, 04:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1987-020
- Launches in 1987
- 20th of 114
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