Kosmos-3M launched Kosmos 2056, a Soviet military navigation satellite, from Plesetsk into low Earth orbit as part of the classified Kosmos series supporting Soviet naval and defense operations.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 366th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 18 January 1990, 12:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1990-004
- Launches in 1990
- 4th of 121
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