Kosmos 1871, an EPN 03.0695 dynamic mass simulator of a Tselina-2 ELINT satellite with ballast, launched on a Zenit-2 from Baikonur LC-45/1 to evaluate the vehicle with heavy LEO payloads during the Zenit flight-test campaign.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 10.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 10th
- of 35 Zenit-2 flights
- Date and time
- 1 August 1987, 03:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1987-065
- Launches in 1987
- 69th of 114
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