Strela-3 116 to 118 & Gonets 4 to 6

Tsiklon-3 launched a cluster of Russian military Strela-3 store-and-forward communications satellites (Kosmos 2337-2339) together with the civilian Gonets-D1 No. 4 satellite from Plesetsk.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

1.4 T

Flight

116th

of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights

Date and time

14 February 1997, 03:47 UTC

Rocket

Tsiklon-3

Builder

Yuzhmash

Launch site

32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Payload

Communications

International designator

1997-006

Launches in 1997

7th of 89

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