Kosmos 864 (Parus #6), a Soviet military navigation and store-dump communications satellite of the Tsiklon/Parus constellation. Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/2 placed the craft in LEO to provide naval positioning and message relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 139th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 29 October 1976, 12:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1976-108
- Launches in 1976
- 110th of 131
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