Kosmos 1422, a Zenit-6U (Argon #70) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, launched on a Soyuz-U from Plesetsk LC-43/3 into low Earth orbit for short-duration optical reconnaissance imagery.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 307th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 3 December 1982, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1982-114
- Launches in 1982
- 121st of 129
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