Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk placed Kosmos 1821, a Parus military navigation satellite for the Tsiklon-B system, into LEO for naval positioning and store-and-forward data relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 340th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 18 February 1987, 13:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1987-017
- Launches in 1987
- 17th of 114
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