Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/1 launched Kosmos 913, a Taifun-2 radar-calibration satellite that deployed about twenty Romb subsatellites as calibrated targets for Soviet air-defense and space-surveillance radars.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 155th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 30 May 1977, 22:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1977-042
- Launches in 1977
- 43rd of 130
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