Kosmos 1421, a Zenit-6U (Argon #69) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, launched on a Soyuz-U from Baikonur into low Earth orbit for short-duration optical reconnaissance imagery.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 306th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 18 November 1982, 09:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1982-112
- Launches in 1982
- 118th of 129
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