Kosmos-3M launched Kosmos 2251, a Strela-2M military store-dump communications satellite for the Russian Ministry of Defense. The defunct satellite gained notoriety in February 2009 when it collided with the active Iridium 33 satellite, one of the first major in-orbit collisions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 398th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 16 June 1993, 04:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1993-036
- Launches in 1993
- 37th of 83
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