Kosmos 1442, a Yantar-4K1 (Oktan) high-resolution film-return reconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military. Soyuz-U from Plesetsk lofted the Zhemchug camera craft on a multi-week imaging mission with main and secondary reentry capsules.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 313th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 25 February 1983, 12:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1983-012
- Launches in 1983
- 13th of 129
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