Kosmos 1902, a Taifun-1 (Vektor) active radar-calibration target satellite, launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk. The roughly 500 kg spherical spacecraft supported Soviet radar-system calibration in low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 570 kg
- Flight
- 348th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 15 December 1987, 13:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1987-103
- Launches in 1987
- 107th of 114
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