Launched Kosmos 2027, a Taifun-1 radar-calibration and target satellite for the Soviet Ministry of Defense, into a roughly 394 x 427 km orbit from Plesetsk to support space-surveillance and tracking-radar testing.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 570 kg
- Flight
- 363rd
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 14 June 1989, 12:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1989-045
- Launches in 1989
- 46th of 102
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