Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/1 launched Kosmos 996 (Parus #14), a military navigation and store-dump communications satellite for Soviet naval and ground forces in a near-circular ~1,000 km LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 180th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 28 March 1978, 01:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1978-031
- Launches in 1978
- 32nd of 128
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