Tsiklon-3 launched from Plesetsk deployed a cluster of Strela-3 store-dump military communications satellites, including Kosmos 2116 (Strela-3 No. 49), used by Soviet forces for delayed message relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 86th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 8 August 1990, 04:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1990-070
- Launches in 1990
- 73rd of 121
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