Tsiklon-3 launched a batch of Strela-3 military store-dump communications satellites (including Kosmos 2165, 2169 and 2170) from Plesetsk into low Earth orbit for the Soviet armed forces.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 96th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 12 November 1991, 20:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1991-077
- Launches in 1991
- 80th of 91
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