Kosmos 489 (Zaliv #11), a Soviet Tsiklon Doppler navigation satellite launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk into LEO for military positioning and store-and-forward communications.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 680 kg
- Flight
- 54th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 6 May 1972, 11:24 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1972-035
- Launches in 1972
- 37th of 113
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