Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk failed carrying an intended Taifun-2 (Romb) radar-calibration satellite with up to 24 Romb sub-satellites; the launch failure prevented deployment of the calibration targets for Soviet air- and space-defense radars.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 274th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 25 January 1983, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- Launches in 1983
- 4th of 129