Kosmos 1204, a Taifun-2 radar-calibration satellite that released about 22 Romb subsatellites for Soviet tracking and air-defense sensor exercises. Kosmos-3M from Kapustin Yar Site 107/1 placed the cluster in LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 225th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 31 July 1980, 10:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 107/1, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1980-067
- Launches in 1980
- 69th of 108
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