Failed Strela-2M (#6) military store-dump communications satellite for the Soviet Strela constellation. Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/1 failed to place the craft in its planned ~800 km LEO; cause unknown (COSPAR 1972-F06).
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 60th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 17 October 1972, 19:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1972
- 88th of 113