Kosmos-3M launched from Plesetsk carrying a Parus military navigation satellite for the Russian Navy alongside a Sterkh search-and-rescue satellite for the COSPAS-SARSAT system.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 870 kg
- Flight
- 444th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 21 July 2009, 03:57 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2009-039
- Launches in 2009
- 41st of 78
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