A Tsiklon-3 rocket deployed six Strela-3 military store-and-dump communications satellites (Kosmos 1994-1999, Strela-3 nos. 29-34) from Plesetsk in a single cluster launch, each a 220 kg relay for delayed Soviet military message traffic.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 74th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 10 February 1989, 15:13 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-009
- Launches in 1989
- 9th of 102
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