Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk lofted Kosmos 1861, a Tsikada civilian navigation satellite for Soviet maritime and scientific users, carrying amateur-radio RS-10 and RS-11 transponders as secondary payloads.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 343rd
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 23 June 1987, 07:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1987-054
- Launches in 1987
- 58th of 114
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