Kosmos 1186, a Taifun-2 radar-calibration/target satellite for the Soviet military, launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/1 into LEO and deploying 24 Romb calibration spheres for radar tracking tests.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 222nd
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 6 June 1980, 11:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1980-047
- Launches in 1980
- 48th of 108
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