Strela-1M 161-168

Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/2 launched Kosmos 1051–1058, an octuplet of Strela-1M military store-and-dump communications satellites for the Soviet armed forces in ~1,500 km LEO.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

480 kg

Flight

191st

of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights

Date and time

5 December 1978, 18:12 UTC

Rocket

Kosmos-3M (11K65M)

Builder

Polyot

Launch site

132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Payload

Government/Top Secret

International designator

1978-109

Launches in 1978

113th of 128

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