Tsiklon-3 launch of Meteor 3-03, a Soviet polar-orbiting weather satellite gathering cloud-cover imagery and atmospheric data for operational forecasting from a Sun-synchronous orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.3 T
- Flight
- 80th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 24 October 1989, 21:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1989-086
- Launches in 1989
- 87th of 102
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