Strela-1M 105-112

Octuple launch of Kosmos 791–798, eight Strela-1M store-and-dump military communications satellites for the Soviet armed forces, orbited together from Plesetsk on a single Kosmos-3M.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

480 kg

Flight

121st

of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights

Date and time

28 January 1976, 10:39 UTC

Rocket

Kosmos-3M (11K65M)

Builder

Polyot

Launch site

132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Payload

Government/Top Secret

International designator

1976-008

Launches in 1976

8th of 131

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