Kosmos 1869, the second Okean-O1 ocean-monitoring satellite, launched on a Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk. It carried side-looking radar, microwave radiometers, and multispectral scanners for sea ice, surface temperature, and maritime surveillance.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 60th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 16 July 1987, 04:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1987-062
- Launches in 1987
- 66th of 114
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