Kosmos 885 (Taifun-2 #2), a Soviet radar-calibration target satellite that deployed 17 Romb subsatellites for radar-tracking exercises, launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/2 into LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 144th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 17 December 1976, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1976-124
- Launches in 1976
- 127th of 131
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