Kosmos 1034 through 1041, 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
- 188th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 4 October 1978, 03:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-091
- Launches in 1978
- 94th of 128
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