Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/2 launched Kosmos 965, a Taifun-2 radar-calibration and target vehicle that deployed about two dozen Romb sub-satellites for Soviet air-defense and tracking-system calibration.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 171st
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 8 December 1977, 11:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1977-111
- Launches in 1977
- 117th of 130
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