Radio Sputnik 3 to 8

Radio Sputnik 3–8 (RS-3 through RS-8), six Soviet amateur-radio satellites launched together for the Radio sport community. Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk LC-132/2 placed the cluster in LEO for dual-band amateur communications and educational experiments.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

420 kg (est.)

Flight

247th

of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights

Date and time

17 December 1981, 11:00 UTC

Rocket

Kosmos-3M (11K65M)

Builder

Polyot

Launch site

132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Payload

Communications

International designator

1981-120

Launches in 1981

122nd of 126

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