Kosmos 1295, a Parus military navigation and store-dump communications satellite for the Soviet Navy Tsiklon system. Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk LC-132/2 placed the craft in near-polar LEO for fleet positioning and tactical messaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 239th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 12 August 1981, 05:46 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1981-077
- Launches in 1981
- 79th of 126
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
View satellites in Space Atlas