Deployed Meteor 2-20, a Soviet weather satellite, from Plesetsk into a near-polar orbit to gather meteorological and Earth-imaging data.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 84th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 27 June 1990, 22:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1990-057
- Launches in 1990
- 59th of 121
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