Kosmos 1269, a Strela-2M store-dump military communications satellite for the Soviet armed forces. Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/1 placed the craft in LEO for low-rate tactical message relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 236th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 7 May 1981, 13:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1981-041
- Launches in 1981
- 43rd of 126
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