Kosmos-3M launched the Nadezhda navigation and search-and-rescue satellite from Plesetsk, part of the Tsikada/Kospas-Sarsat system used by Soviet-legacy merchant shipping; the flight was the first sun-synchronous launch from the site.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 926 kg
- Flight
- 421st
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 28 June 2000, 10:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2000-033
- Launches in 2000
- 35th of 85
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