Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk launched Cosmos 1776, a Taifun-2 (Romb) radar-calibration mission deploying target objects used to train Soviet air- and missile-defense tracking systems.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 330th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 3 September 1986, 09:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1986-067
- Launches in 1986
- 72nd of 110
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