Failed Kosmos-3M launch from Plesetsk LC-132/2 carrying a Tselina-O ELINT satellite (would-be Kosmos 430). The vehicle failed to reach orbit, so the payload never received a Kosmos designation.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 40th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 22 July 1971, 13:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1971
- 68th of 133