Kosmos 1550, a Parus (#43) military navigation satellite, launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk into low Earth orbit to support Soviet naval navigation and store-and-forward communications.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 298th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 11 May 1984, 06:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1984-043
- Launches in 1984
- 43rd of 129
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