Kosmos 564–571 (Strela-1M #41–48), an octuplet of Soviet store-and-forward military communications satellites. Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132 delivered eight Strela-1M craft into ~1,500 km LEO for the Soviet military store-dump network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 480 kg
- Flight
- 69th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 8 June 1973, 15:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1973-037
- Launches in 1973
- 40th of 116
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