Cosmos 1950, a GEO-IK geodetic satellite used to refine the shape of Earth's gravitational field and improve mapping and missile-targeting accuracy via laser, radio and optical tracking.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 68th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 30 May 1988, 08:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1988-046
- Launches in 1988
- 47th of 121
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