Description : Cosmos 156 was the fourth announced Russian meteorological satellite and the second interim operational weather satellite in the experimental "Meteor" system. It was also the second launch of a semi-operational weather satellite from the Plesetsk site into a near-polar, near-circular orbit. Unlike the U.S. Weather satellites, however, the orbit was prograde (not sun-synchronous) because, as a result of geographic limitations, a retrograde orbit was not possible. Cosmos 156 was orbited to test, in a semi-operational mode, meteorological instruments designed for obtaining images of cloud cover, snow cover, and ice fields on the day and night sides of the earth and for measuring fluxes of outgoing radiation reflected and radiated by the earth-atmosphere system.

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