Soyuz-U from Baikonur launched Kosmos 1426, the first Yantar-4KS1 (Terilen) electro-optical reconnaissance satellite, pioneering Soviet digital imaging relayed via Potok rather than film return.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 309th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 28 December 1982, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1982-120
- Launches in 1982
- 128th of 129
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