Cosmos 1943, a Tselina-2 signals-intelligence satellite for the Soviet military, designed to intercept and locate radio and radar emissions from foreign ships and military installations.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 35 Zenit-2 flights
- Date and time
- 15 May 1988, 09:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1988-039
- Launches in 1988
- 40th of 121
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