Kosmos 1146, the first Taifun-1B (Yug) passive radar-calibration satellite for Soviet tracking and air-defense sensor exercises. Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/2 placed the craft in LEO as a radar target.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 750 kg
- Flight
- 213th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 5 December 1979, 09:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1979-100
- Launches in 1979
- 104th of 110
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