Kosmos 2026, a Parus military navigation satellite, launched from Plesetsk aboard a Kosmos-3M rocket to provide positioning data for the Soviet Tsiklon-B satellite navigation system used by the Navy and merchant fleet.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 362nd
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 7 June 1989, 05:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1989-042
- Launches in 1989
- 42nd of 102
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