Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk failed carrying an intended Strela-2M military store-and-forward communications satellite; the launch vehicle did not reach orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 266th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 30 August 1982, 19:55 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1982
- 89th of 129