Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/1 launched Kosmos 951 (Parus #10), a Soviet Navy military navigation and store-dump communications satellite providing Doppler positioning in near-circular ~1,000 km LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 164th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 13 September 1977, 19:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1977-087
- Launches in 1977
- 90th of 130
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