Vostok-2M from Baikonur lofted IRS-1A, India's first operational indigenous remote-sensing satellite, with LISS-I and LISS-II cameras into a sun-synchronous polar orbit for land-resource imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 975 kg
- Flight
- 91st
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 17 March 1988, 06:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1988-021
- Launches in 1988
- 22nd of 121
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