Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk launched Kosmos 1538, a Strela-2M store-and-dump military communications satellite for Soviet forces, providing delayed message relay from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 297th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 21 February 1984, 15:36 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1984-019
- Launches in 1984
- 19th of 129
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