Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk launched Cosmos 1741, a Strela-2M store-dump military communications satellite for the Soviet armed forces, collecting and relaying messages from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 325th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 17 April 1986, 21:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1986-030
- Launches in 1986
- 32nd of 110
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