Kosmos-3M launched Kosmos 2298 from Plesetsk, a Strela-2M military store-and-dump communications satellite used by Soviet/Russian forces for low-bandwidth message relay before the type was retired in favor of Strela-3.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 405th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 20 December 1994, 05:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1994-083
- Launches in 1994
- 87th of 93
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