Failed launch of a DS-P1-M (Tyulpan #2) ASAT radar-target satellite. Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132 lost first-stage thrust about one second after liftoff on 22 December 1970, fell back, and exploded on the pad, badly damaging the complex.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 30th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 22 December 1970, 21:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- Launches in 1970
- 123rd of 124