Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk lofted the first six Strela-3 store-and-forward military communications satellites (Kosmos 1617–1622) into LEO, inaugurating the Strela-3 constellation for the Soviet military.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 29th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 15 January 1985, 14:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1985-003
- Launches in 1985
- 3rd of 125
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