Kosmos-3M launch from Plesetsk deployed Kosmos 2098, a Taifun-1 satellite used as a radar calibration target to test and calibrate Soviet ground-based missile-defense and space-tracking radars.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 585 kg
- Flight
- 373rd
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 28 August 1990, 15:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1990-078
- Launches in 1990
- 82nd of 121
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