Kosmos 1302, a Strela-2M military store-dump communications satellite for the Soviet armed forces, launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/1 into low Earth orbit for delayed message relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 240th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 28 August 1981, 16:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1981-084
- Launches in 1981
- 86th of 126
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