10 January 1978, 20:51 UTC
Strela-1M 137-144
Kosmos 976–983 (Strela-1M #137–144), an octet of Soviet military store-and-forward communications satellites. Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/2 deployed the eight small craft into LEO for low-data-rate military message relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 480 kg
- Flight
- 175th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 10 January 1978, 20:51 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-005
- Launches in 1978
- 5th of 128
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