Kosmos-3M launched Kosmos 1959, a Parus military navigation satellite for the Soviet Navy, from Plesetsk. Parus spacecraft used Doppler-shift transmissions to give ships and submarines position fixes as part of the Tsiklon-B navigation constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 355th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 18 July 1988, 22:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1988-062
- Launches in 1988
- 65th of 121
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