Kosmos 1827–1832, a six-satellite Strela-3 military store-and-forward communications cluster, launched on a Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk. The LEO constellation provided secure delayed-relay messaging for Soviet armed forces.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 57th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 13 March 1987, 13:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1987-026
- Launches in 1987
- 26th of 114
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