LAUNCH CENTER

Success

Fri Mar 20 1981

Soviet Space Program

US-P 10

Launch Successful

LAUNCH PREVIEW

Launch Time

(11:45 PM UTC)

Launch Window Start

(11:45 PM UTC)

Launch Window End

(11:45 PM UTC)

RECOVERY OVERVIEW

Location

No Recovery Specified

Type

No Recovery Specified

Rocket Details

Name:

Tsiklon-2

Description:

The Tsyklon-2 (cyclone-2), also known as Tsiklon-2 and Tsyklon-M, GRAU index 11K69, was a Ukrainian, previously Soviet orbital carrier rocket used from the 1960s to the late 2000s.

MISSION OVERVIEW

Type: Government/Top Secret
Ocean surveillance satellite using passive ELINT devices

COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Pad