Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk launched Kosmos 1310, a Taifun-1 (Vektor) active radar-calibration satellite—a roughly 2 m solar-cell-covered sphere used as a radar target for Soviet tracking systems.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 570 kg
- Flight
- 243rd
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 23 September 1981, 08:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1981-095
- Launches in 1981
- 97th of 126
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