Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk deployed Kosmos 1852 through 1859, an octet of Strela-1M store-and-forward military communications satellites for the Soviet armed forces in low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 480 kg
- Flight
- 342nd
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 16 June 1987, 17:51 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1987-051
- Launches in 1987
- 54th of 114
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