Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/1 launched Kosmos 939–946, an octuplet of Strela-1M military store-and-dump communications satellites for Soviet forces, deployed into ~1,500 km orbits to replenish the constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 480 kg
- Flight
- 163rd
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 24 August 1977, 18:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1977-079
- Launches in 1977
- 82nd of 130
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