Kosmos 1980 carried Tselina-2 No. 8, a 6,000 kg Soviet SIGINT satellite designed to intercept foreign military radio traffic, into an approximately 845 km orbit aboard a Zenit-2 rocket from Baikonur.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T
- Flight
- 13th
- of 35 Zenit-2 flights
- Date and time
- 23 November 1988, 14:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1988-102
- Launches in 1988
- 107th of 121
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