Tsiklon-3 launched the Meteor-3 No. 3 weather satellite alongside the secondary payload Kosmos 1912, a Strela-3 store-dump military communications satellite, from Plesetsk into a near-polar orbit for Soviet operational weather monitoring.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T
- Flight
- 71st
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 26 July 1988, 05:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1988-064
- Launches in 1988
- 67th of 121
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