Kosmos 540 (Strela-2M #7), a Soviet military store-and-forward communications satellite launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk for tactical message relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 64th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 25 December 1972, 23:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1972-104
- Launches in 1972
- 111th of 113
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