Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk lofted eight Strela-1M store-dump military communications satellites (Cosmos 1716–1723) for the Soviet armed forces, deploying them into low Earth orbit on a single dispenser stack.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 480 kg
- Flight
- 322nd
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 9 January 1986, 02:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1986-002
- Launches in 1986
- 2nd of 110
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