Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/2 launched Kosmos 891, a Taifun-1 (Vektor #6) active radar-calibration satellite—a ~2 m sphere used to check Soviet air-defense and space-surveillance radars from LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 570 kg
- Flight
- 147th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 2 February 1977, 12:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1977-006
- Launches in 1977
- 6th of 130
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