Kosmos 2059, a Duga-K calibration/target satellite, launched by a Kosmos-3M rocket from Plesetsk into an elliptical orbit to support testing of the Soviet Duga over-the-horizon radar early-warning system.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 810 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 367th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 6 February 1990, 16:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1990-012
- Launches in 1990
- 12th of 121
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