Kosmos 1763, a Strela-2M military store-and-forward communications satellite, launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk. It joined the Soviet LEO constellation providing secure delayed-relay messaging for armed forces worldwide.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 329th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 16 July 1986, 04:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1986-052
- Launches in 1986
- 57th of 110
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