Strela-1M 121-128

Kosmos 871–878 (Strela-1M #121–128), an octet of Soviet military store-and-dump communications satellites. Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/1 deployed the eight ~40 kg craft in a single LEO stack for tactical message relay.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

480 kg

Flight

141st

of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights

Date and time

7 December 1976, 10:23 UTC

Rocket

Kosmos-3M (11K65M)

Builder

Polyot

Launch site

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

Payload

Government/Top Secret

International designator

1976-118

Launches in 1976

121st of 131

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