A Tsiklon-3 launched from Plesetsk orbited Cosmos 2043 (Strela-3 no.40, a military store-dump communications satellite) alongside Interkosmos 24 'Aktivny', a Soviet-led international mission carrying Czechoslovakia's Magion 2 subsatellite to study ionospheric plasma turbulence.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 79th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 28 September 1989, 00:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Materials Science
- International designator
- 1989-080
- Launches in 1989
- 81st of 102
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