Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/1 launched Kosmos 1169 (Taifun-1/Vektor), a Soviet active radar-calibration target satellite used for radar and tracking system tests into low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 570 kg
- Flight
- 218th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 27 March 1980, 07:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1980-023
- Launches in 1980
- 23rd of 108
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