Zenit-2 from Baikonur lofted Cosmos 1844, a Tselina-2 electronic intelligence satellite for Soviet military SIGINT, providing wideband ELINT coverage of foreign radio and radar emitters from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 35 Zenit-2 flights
- Date and time
- 13 May 1987, 05:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1987-041
- Launches in 1987
- 43rd of 114
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