Kosmos-3M launched from Plesetsk carrying Germany's CHAMP satellite, which mapped Earth's gravity and magnetic fields with unprecedented precision, alongside Italy's MITA and the German Rubin-1 technology-demonstration subsatellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 699 kg
- Flight
- 422nd
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 15 July 2000, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2000-039
- Launches in 2000
- 41st of 85
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