Kosmos-3M launched a Tsikada navigation satellite from Plesetsk Cosmodrome into low Earth orbit, providing Doppler positioning for Soviet/Russian naval and commercial shipping.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 415th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 17 April 1997, 13:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1997-017
- Launches in 1997
- 18th of 89
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