Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk launched Kosmos 1427, a Taifun-1B (Yug) passive radar-calibration satellite used as a known RCS target for Soviet ground-based air- and space-defense radar calibration.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 750 kg
- Flight
- 271st
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 29 December 1982, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1982-121
- Launches in 1982
- 129th of 129
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