Carried the Meteor 2-17 weather satellite from Plesetsk aboard a Tsiklon-3, gathering meteorological imagery and data on penetrating radiation fluxes in near-Earth space from a roughly 950 km polar orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 66th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 30 January 1988, 10:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1988-005
- Launches in 1988
- 6th of 121
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
View satellites in Space Atlas