Kosmos-3M launched the navigation satellite Kosmos 2346 from Plesetsk for the Tsiklon-B military positioning system, joining a constellation of satellites spaced around low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 914 kg
- Flight
- 416th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 23 September 1997, 16:44 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1997-052
- Launches in 1997
- 54th of 89
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