Progress 16, an uncrewed Soviet cargo freighter to Salyut 7, launched on a Soyuz-U from Baikonur with supplies and the 28 kg Iskra 3 amateur-radio satellite later deployed from the station airlock; docked 2 Nov–13 Dec 1982.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 304th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 31 October 1982, 11:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1982-107
- Launches in 1982
- 113th of 129
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