Tsiklon-3 launched Meteor 3 No. 6 from Plesetsk, the first fully operational satellite in the Meteor-3 series, providing global weather imagery and atmospheric monitoring from a sun-synchronous orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.3 T
- Flight
- 90th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 24 April 1991, 01:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1991-030
- Launches in 1991
- 31st of 91
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