Kosmos 1398, a Zenit-4MT (Orion #23) topographic mapping photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, launched on a Soyuz-U from Plesetsk into low Earth orbit for cartographic film-return imagery.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 293rd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 3 August 1982, 11:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1982-077
- Launches in 1982
- 81st of 129
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