Tsiklon-3 launched Kosmos 2143 from Plesetsk, a Strela-3 store-and-forward military communications satellite relaying non-urgent traffic between Soviet forces and overseas stations as part of a multi-satellite constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 91st
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 16 May 1991, 21:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1991-033
- Launches in 1991
- 34th of 91
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