Tsiklon-3 launched Cosmos 2038, one of a batch of Strela-3 military store-dump communications satellites deployed together from Plesetsk to relay low-priority message traffic for Soviet armed forces.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 78th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 14 September 1989, 09:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-074
- Launches in 1989
- 75th of 102
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