Kosmos 1081–1088, an octet of Strela-1M store-and-forward military communications satellites for the Soviet military. Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk dispensed eight ~61 kg craft into ~74° LEO for tactical message relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 480 kg
- Flight
- 199th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 15 March 1979, 02:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1979-024
- Launches in 1979
- 25th of 110
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