Kosmos 1873, an EPN 03.0695 Tselina-2 mass-simulator payload used to evaluate the Zenit-2 launch vehicle with heavy ELINT-class masses, lofted from Baikonur into low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 11 T (est.)
- Flight
- 11th
- of 35 Zenit-2 flights
- Date and time
- 28 August 1987, 08:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1987-071
- Launches in 1987
- 75th of 114
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