Strela-1M 249-256

Failed Kosmos-3M attempt from Plesetsk to orbit an eight-satellite Strela-1M (#249–#256) military store-dump communications cluster; the octuplet did not reach low Earth orbit.

Outcome

Failure

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

Did not reach orbit

Flight

270th

of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights

Date and time

24 November 1982, 11:00 UTC

Rocket

Kosmos-3M (11K65M)

Builder

Polyot

Launch site

132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Payload

Government/Top Secret

Launches in 1982

119th of 129