A Tsyklon-3 rocket launched Meteor 3-04, a Soviet weather satellite, from Plesetsk into a near-polar orbit to gather atmospheric, cloud-cover, and ozone data for operational forecasting.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T
- Flight
- 94th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 15 August 1991, 09:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1991-056
- Launches in 1991
- 58th of 91
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