Orbited Meteor-2 16, a Soviet second-generation meteorological satellite, from Plesetsk on a Tsiklon-3 into a high-inclination polar orbit for VIS/IR weather imaging and radiation monitoring.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 61st
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 18 August 1987, 02:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1987-068
- Launches in 1987
- 72nd of 114
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