Kosmos-3M launched a pair of Strela-3 store-dump military communications satellites for the Russian Defense Ministry from Plesetsk, part of the type's transition from six-at-a-time Tsiklon-3 launches to paired Kosmos-3M flights.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 450 kg
- Flight
- 426th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 8 July 2002, 06:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2002-036
- Launches in 2002
- 36th of 65
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