Informator 1 was a prototype communications satellite for the Koskon (Space Conversion) Global Space Communication System to collect and transmit data from several scientific stations with an additional radio amateur hosted payload. It was launched on 29 January 1991 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome by a Kosmos-3M launch vehicle.

Mission type: Communications · Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Rocket: Kosmos-3M · Provider: Soviet Space Program