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Launch Complex: LC32/1. Plesetsk. Latitude: 62.9073 deg. Longitude: 40.7872 deg. Used by: Tsiklon. First Launch: 1980-01-23. Last Launch: 2001-12-28. Number Launches: 18. Construction of this highly-automated launch complex for the Tsiklon-3 launch vehicle started in 1970. The complex was designed by the Transmash Design bureau led by Chief Designer V N Solovyev. The complex consisted of two pads. The vehicle was assembled and integrated with its payload in the assembly building. It was then delivered to the launch pad by railway in a horizontal position. A launch pad erector placed the rocket into vertical position. No service tower was needed for the storable-propellant booster. LC32/1 Chronology 1980 January 23 - 07:00 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. Cosmos 1151 Mass: 1,950 kg (4,290 lb). Spacecraft: Okean-E. Agency: MO SSSR. Perigee: 566 km (351 mi). Apogee: 589 km (365 mi). Inclination: 82.50 deg. Period: 96.20 min. Test mission of Okean satellite without the radar. Testing of methods for obtaining operational information on the oceans. 1981 January 23 - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. FAILURE: Payload shroud failed to separate. Geo-IK no. 1 Mass: 1,500 kg (3,300 lb). Spacecraft: Geo-IK. Agency: RVSN. 1981 August 24 - 21:40 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. Cosmos 1300 Spacecraft: Tselina-D. Agency: MO SSSR. Perigee: 589 km (365 mi). Apogee: 609 km (378 mi). Inclination: 82.50 deg. Period: 96.70 min. 1981 September 21 - 13:10 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. Oreol 3 Mass: 1,000 kg (2,200 lb). Spacecraft: AUOS. Agency: RVSN. Perigee: 394 km (244 mi). Apogee: 1,672 km (1,038 mi). Inclination: 82.50 deg. Period: 105.80 min. Carried Soviet/French magnetosphere and ionosphere experiments. Investigation of physical processes in the earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere, and study of the nature of polar aurorae. Carried scientific equipment developed by Soviet and French specialists under the joint Soviet-French project 'Arkad-3'. 1981 September 30 - 08:00 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. Cosmos 1312 Mass: 1,500 kg (3,300 lb). Spacecraft: Geo-IK. Agency: MO SSSR. Perigee: 1,491 km (926 mi). Apogee: 1,503 km (933 mi). Inclination: 82.60 deg. Period: 115.90 min. Investigation of the upper atmosphere and outer space. 1981 December 3 - 11:47 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. Cosmos 1328 Spacecraft: Tselina-D. Agency: MO SSSR. Perigee: 597 km (370 mi). Apogee: 619 km (384 mi). Inclination: 82.50 deg. Period: 96.90 min. 1982 March 25 - 09:50 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. Meteor 2-08 Mass: 2,750 kg (6,060 lb). Spacecraft: Meteor-2. Agency: MO SSSR. Perigee: 933 km (579 mi). Apogee: 957 km (594 mi). Inclination: 82.50 deg. Period: 103.90 min. Acquisition of meteorological information and data on fluxes of penetrating radiation in circumterrestrial space. 1982 June 10 - 17:37 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. Cosmos 1378 Mass: 2,200 kg (4,800 lb). Spacecraft: Tselina-D. Agency: MO SSSR. Perigee: 593 km (368 mi). Apogee: 618 km (384 mi). Inclination: 82.50 deg. Period: 96.80 min. 1982 September 24 - 09:15 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. Cosmos 1410 Mass: 1,500 kg (3,300 lb). Spacecraft: Geo-IK. Agency: MO SSSR. Perigee: 1,492 km (927 mi). Apogee: 1,503 km (933 mi). Inclination: 82.60 deg. Period: 115.90 min. Investigation of the upper atmosphere and outer space. 1983 September 28 - 07:59 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. Cosmos 1500 Mass: 1,950 kg (4,290 lb). Spacecraft: Okean-OE. Agency: MO SSSR. Perigee: 596 km (370 mi). Apogee: 621 km (385 mi). Inclination: 82.50 deg. Period: 96.90 min. Elaboration of new kinds of information-measuring apparatus and methods of remote investigation of the Pacific Ocean in the interests of science and of various branches of the national economy of the USSR. 1984 November 27 - 14:12 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. FAILURE: Stage 3 failed to reignite. Cosmos 1612 Mass: 2,150 kg (4,730 lb). Spacecraft: Meteor-3. Agency: MO SSSR. Perigee: 132 km (82 mi). Apogee: 1,227 km (762 mi). Inclination: 82.60 deg. Period: 98.30 min. Unusable orbit, however the operator was able to operate the satellite in a limited manner. First launch of new Meteor-3 spacecraft. 1985 June 14 - 10:36 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. Cosmos 1660 Mass: 1,500 kg (3,300 lb). Spacecraft: Geo-IK. Agency: MO SSSR. Perigee: 1,482 km (920 mi). Apogee: 1,525 km (947 mi). Inclination: 73.60 deg. Period: 116.10 min. Investigation of the upper atmosphere and outer space. 1986 December 2 - 07:00 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. Cosmos 1803 Mass: 1,500 kg (3,300 lb). Spacecraft: Geo-IK. Agency: MO SSSR. Perigee: 1,497 km (930 mi). Apogee: 1,504 km (934 mi). Inclination: 82.60 deg. Period: 116.00 min. Investigation of the upper atmosphere and outer space. 1988 May 30 - 08:00 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. Cosmos 1950 Mass: 1,500 kg (3,300 lb). Spacecraft: Geo-IK. Agency: MO SSSR. Perigee: 1,484 km (922 mi). Apogee: 1,522 km (945 mi). Inclination: 73.60 deg. Period: 116.10 min. Investigation of the upper atmosphere and outer space. 1988 July 5 - 09:45 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. Okean 1 Mass: 1,950 kg (4,290 lb). Spacecraft: Okean-O1. Agency: MO SSSR. Perigee: 606 km (376 mi). Apogee: 633 km (393 mi). Inclination: 82.50 deg. Period: 97.10 min. Oceanographic. Gathering of up-to-date oceanographic information and data on ice conditions in the interests of the Soviet economy and international cooperation. 1990 July 30 - 00:06 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. Cosmos 2088 Mass: 1,500 kg (3,300 lb). Spacecraft: Geo-IK. Agency: MO SSSR. Perigee: 1,484 km (922 mi). Apogee: 1,524 km (946 mi). Inclination: 73.60 deg. Period: 116.10 min. Investigation of outer space. 2000 December 27 - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. FAILURE: The S5M third stage steering unit failed and the vehicle crashed a few thousand km downrange near Wrangel Island. Gonets-D1 Mass: 225 kg (496 lb). Spacecraft: Gonets-D1. Agency: Russian Aviation and Space Agency (Rosaviakosmos). Civilian communications. Failed to orbit. 2001 December 28 - 03:24 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon. Cosmos 2384 Mass: 225 kg (496 lb). Spacecraft: Strela-3. Agency: VKS (Russia). Perigee: 1,416 km (879 mi). Apogee: 1,432 km (889 mi). Inclination: 82.60 deg. Period: 114.30 min. The Tsiklon put six military Strela-3 and three civilian equivalent Gonets-D1 satellites into a medium earth orbit. Due to a launch failure in 2000 this was the first replenishment of the Strela satellite constellation since 1998. The Tsiklon second stage burn was complete at 0329:02 UTC. The S5M stage separated and ignited at 0330 and shut down at 0332:00, placing the stage and satellite dispenser in a suborbital -550 x 1400 km orbit. A second burn at apogee at 0406:15 UTC put the stage in a 1400 km circular orbit. The three Gonets satellites separated first, beginning at 0407:28 UTC; the last of the three Kosmos/Strela satellites was ejected at 0408:33, with a perigee about 15 km higher than the first of the deployments. Contact us with any corrections, additions, or comments. Conditions for use of drawings, pictures, or other materials from this site.. To contact astronauts or cosmonauts. © Mark Wade, 1997 - 2008 except where otherwise noted.