Kosmos 990, a Strela-2M store-and-forward military communications satellite, launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/2 into an ~800 km low Earth orbit for Soviet armed-forces messaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 177th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 17 February 1978, 16:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-019
- Launches in 1978
- 19th of 128
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