Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/2 launched Interkosmos 19 (AUOS-Z-I-IK), an ionospheric research satellite built with Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland to study the upper atmosphere and plasma environment.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T
- Flight
- 198th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 27 February 1979, 17:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1979-020
- Launches in 1979
- 21st of 110
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