Launched the Nadezhda 5 (Tsikada-Kospas) navigation satellite from Plesetsk, providing maritime positioning data and search-and-rescue relay support as part of the international Cospas-Sarsat system.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 900 kg
- Flight
- 417th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 10 December 1998, 11:57 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1998-072
- Launches in 1998
- 77th of 82
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