Tsiklon-3 launched Meteor-2-20, a Soviet polar-orbiting weather satellite, from Plesetsk to continue routine meteorological imaging and space-environment monitoring as part of the long-running Meteor-2 series.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 87th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 28 September 1990, 07:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1990-086
- Launches in 1990
- 90th of 121
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