Kosmos 887 (Parus #7), a Soviet military dual-use navigation/communications satellite providing Doppler VHF position fixes for naval and other users, launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/1 into LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 145th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 28 December 1976, 07:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1976-128
- Launches in 1976
- 131st of 131
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