Cosmos 2008 carried a Strela-1M military store-dump communications satellite into orbit aboard a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk, part of a small-satellite constellation used to relay short bursts of Soviet military traffic.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 480 kg
- Flight
- 360th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 24 March 1989, 13:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-025
- Launches in 1989
- 25th of 102
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