Kosmos 1898, a Strela-2M military store-dump communications satellite, launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk into an ~800 km circular orbit for Soviet Ministry of Defence messaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 347th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 1 December 1987, 14:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1987-098
- Launches in 1987
- 102nd of 114
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