Soyuz-U from Baikonur launched Kosmos 1438, a Zenit-6U (Argon) medium-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military on a short LEO imaging flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 310th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 27 January 1983, 08:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1983-005
- Launches in 1983
- 6th of 129
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