Launched from Plesetsk, this Kosmos-3M orbited a Parus-class military navigation satellite for the Soviet-era Tsiklon-B positioning network, riding alongside Mozhayets-4, a small technology-demonstration satellite built by Russia's Mozhaisky military academy to test components for improved GLONASS satellites.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 460 kg
- Flight
- 431st
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 27 September 2003, 06:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2003-042
- Launches in 2003
- 43rd of 63
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