Strela-3 133 & 134

This Kosmos-3M launch from Plesetsk carried the Strela-3 military store-and-dump communications satellites Kosmos-2400 and Kosmos-2401 into low Earth orbit for the Russian armed forces.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

450 kg

Flight

430th

of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights

Date and time

19 August 2003, 10:50 UTC

Rocket

Kosmos-3M (11K65M)

Builder

Polyot

Launch site

132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Payload

Government/Top Secret

International designator

2003-037

Launches in 2003

37th of 63

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