A Tsiklon-3 rocket launched Meteor-2 No. 18, a Soviet weather satellite, from Plesetsk into a roughly 950 km polar orbit. The satellite gathered meteorological imagery and monitored penetrating radiation flux in near-Earth space.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 75th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 28 February 1989, 04:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1989-018
- Launches in 1989
- 18th of 102
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