Tsiklon-3 launched Kosmos 2053, a roughly 3,000 kg radar calibration target satellite, from Plesetsk to support Soviet missile-defense radar testing.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 81st
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 27 December 1989, 00:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1989-100
- Launches in 1989
- 101st of 102
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