Kosmos 444–451, an eight-satellite Strela-1M store-and-forward military communications cluster for the Soviet store-dump network. Kosmos-3M (11K65M) from Plesetsk LC-132/2 placed the ~50 kg craft each in LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 480 kg
- Flight
- 43rd
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 13 October 1971, 13:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1971-086
- Launches in 1971
- 95th of 133
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