Carried Germany's ABRIXAS X-ray astronomy satellite and the small MegSat 0 communications demonstrator into low Earth orbit from Kapustin Yar. ABRIXAS suffered a battery short circuit soon after deployment and was declared a total loss within days.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 505 kg
- Flight
- 419th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 28 April 1999, 20:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 107, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-022
- Launches in 1999
- 23rd of 78
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