Strela-3 135 to 136

Launched the paired Cosmos 2408 and Cosmos 2409 satellites, Strela-3 military store-and-dump communications spacecraft for Russian military intelligence, from Plesetsk into near-identical low Earth orbits around 1,470-1,517 km altitude.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

450 kg

Flight

433rd

of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights

Date and time

23 September 2004, 15:07 UTC

Rocket

Kosmos-3M (11K65M)

Builder

Polyot

Launch site

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

Payload

Government/Top Secret

International designator

2004-037

Launches in 2004

38th of 54

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