Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk launched Cosmos 1842, a Tselina-D electronic intelligence satellite for Soviet military SIGINT, monitoring foreign radio and radar emitters from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.8 T
- Flight
- 58th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 27 April 1987, 00:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1987-038
- Launches in 1987
- 40th of 114
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