Kosmos-3M carried a Taifun-2 payload designed to release up to two dozen small subsatellites for Soviet military radar and sensor calibration. A second-stage malfunction caused the mission to fail before reaching orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 384th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 25 June 1991, 13:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- Launches in 1991
- 45th of 91