Launched a Parus-class navigation and communications satellite from Plesetsk for the Soviet-era Tsiklon-B military navigation network. It was the first Kosmos-3M flight since a launch failure in November 2000.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 424th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 8 June 2001, 15:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2001-023
- Launches in 2001
- 23rd of 59
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