Kosmos 1409 (US-K #28 / Oko), a Soviet missile early-warning satellite. Molniya-M/Blok 2BL from Plesetsk lofted the craft into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit to watch for ICBM launches over the northern hemisphere.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 143rd
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 22 September 1982, 06:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1982-095
- Launches in 1982
- 101st of 129
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