Kosmos-3M launched the Taifun-2 satellite from Plesetsk, which released about 25 small Romb subsatellites used as radar and sensor calibration targets for Soviet space-tracking and missile-defense systems.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 356th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 28 July 1988, 11:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1988-065
- Launches in 1988
- 69th of 121
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