Strela-1M 257-264

Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk launched Kosmos 1429–1436, eight Strela-1M store-and-forward military communications satellites deployed together into LEO for Soviet tactical messaging.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

480 kg

Flight

273rd

of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights

Date and time

19 January 1983, 02:25 UTC

Rocket

Kosmos-3M (11K65M)

Builder

Polyot

Launch site

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

Payload

Government/Top Secret

International designator

1983-002

Launches in 1983

2nd of 129

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