Kosmos 822, a Taifun-1 (Vektor) radar-calibration target satellite for the Soviet military, launched from Plesetsk on a Kosmos-3M to support ground radar and tracking system tests.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 570 kg
- Flight
- 127th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 28 May 1976, 15:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1976-049
- Launches in 1976
- 50th of 131
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