Failed launch of Strela-2 No.4, a Soviet store-and-dump military communications satellite. Kosmos-3 (11K65) from Plesetsk Site 41/15 on 15 June 1968 did not reach orbit; no Kosmos designation was assigned.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 4 Kosmos 11K65 flights
- Date and time
- 15 June 1968, 12:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K65
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 41/15, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- Launches in 1968
- 56th of 128