Tsiklon-3 deployed six Strela-3 store-dump military communications satellites (Kosmos 2114-2119) into low Earth orbit from Plesetsk in a single launch, expanding the Soviet armed forces' automated message-relay constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 89th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 22 December 1990, 07:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1990-114
- Launches in 1990
- 119th of 121
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