Strela-1M 225-232

Kosmos 1320–1327, an octet of Strela-1M store-dump military communications satellites for the Soviet armed forces. Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk LC-132/2 deployed the eight small relays into LEO for low-rate tactical message store-and-forward.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

480 kg

Flight

246th

of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights

Date and time

28 November 1981, 18:08 UTC

Rocket

Kosmos-3M (11K65M)

Builder

Polyot

Launch site

132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Payload

Government/Top Secret

International designator

1981-116

Launches in 1981

118th of 126

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