Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/2 launched eight Strela-1M military store-and-forward communications satellites as Kosmos 1250 through 1257, a standard octuple LEO cluster for Soviet tactical messaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 480 kg
- Flight
- 234th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 6 March 1981, 11:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1981-022
- Launches in 1981
- 23rd of 126
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