Description : The satellite was placed in a near-circular, near-polar prograde orbit to provide near-global observations of the earth’s weather systems, cloud cover, ice and snow fields, vertical profiles of temperature and moisture, and reflected and emitted radiation from the dayside and nightside of the earth-atmosphere system for operational use by the Soviet Hydrometeorological Service. This was the fourth satellite of the Meteor series to be placed in a high orbit -- about 240 km higher than most other Meteor launches.
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