Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk launched an octuple Strela-1M stack (Kosmos 1473–1480), store-and-forward military communications satellites for the Soviet armed forces in low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 480 kg
- Flight
- 284th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 6 July 1983, 00:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1983-069
- Launches in 1983
- 70th of 129
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