Deployed Cosmos 2088 (Geo-IK No. 12), a 1,500 kg Soviet geodetic satellite launched from Plesetsk, used with laser reflectors, a radio transponder and flashing beacons to map Earth's gravitational field for military and civil geodesy.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T
- Flight
- 85th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 30 July 1990, 00:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1990-066
- Launches in 1990
- 69th of 121
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