Launched Kosmos 1985, a Taifun-3 radar-calibration target satellite that released 36 small Romb subsatellites, used to test Soviet space-surveillance radar's ability to track and discriminate multiple objects in orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 73rd
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 23 December 1988, 07:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1988-113
- Launches in 1988
- 118th of 121
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