Launched the Kosmos-2416 military communications satellite (Rodnik/Strela-3M series) together with a Gonets-M store-and-forward communications satellite from Plesetsk.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 560 kg
- Flight
- 436th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 21 December 2005, 19:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2005-048
- Launches in 2005
- 52nd of 56
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