Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/1 launched Kosmos 968, a Strela-2M military store-and-dump communications satellite for Soviet forces providing delayed message relay from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 173rd
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 16 December 1977, 04:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1977-119
- Launches in 1977
- 125th of 130
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