Kosmos 1013 through 1020, an octet of Strela-1M store-and-forward military communications satellites, launched together on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/1 into low Earth orbit for Soviet armed-forces messaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 480 kg
- Flight
- 185th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 7 June 1978, 22:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-056
- Launches in 1978
- 58th of 128
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