Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk launched Cosmos 1709, a Parus (Tsiklon-B) military navigation satellite for the Soviet Navy, also providing store-dump data relay from roughly 1,000 km LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 321st
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 19 December 1985, 08:46 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1985-116
- Launches in 1985
- 120th of 125
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