Soyuz-U2 from Baikonur launched Kosmos 1425, a Zenit-6U (Argon) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite; maiden flight of the syntin-fuelled Soyuz-U2 on a short LEO imaging mission for the Soviet military.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 23 December 1982, 09:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1982-119
- Launches in 1982
- 126th of 129
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