Launched Nadezhda 3, a Tsikada-class maritime navigation satellite carrying a COSPAS-SARSAT search-and-rescue payload to help locate ships and aircraft in distress.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 826 kg
- Flight
- 380th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 12 March 1991, 19:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1991-019
- Launches in 1991
- 19th of 91
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