Kosmos 1397, a Taifun-2 (#13) radar-calibration target satellite with Romb subsatellites for the Soviet military, launched on a Kosmos-3M from Kapustin Yar into a roughly 50.6° inclination low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 265th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 29 July 1982, 19:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 107/1, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1982-076
- Launches in 1982
- 80th of 129
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