Kosmos 1445 (BOR-4 №403), a subscale winged lifting-body test vehicle for Buran heat-shield materials. K65M-RB from Kapustin Yar placed it in LEO for a single-orbit flight, gliding re-entry, and ocean recovery after hypersonic plasma heating of the tile and carbon-carbon surfaces.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 4 K65M-RB flights
- Date and time
- 15 March 1983, 22:30 UTC
- Rocket
- K65M-RB
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 107/1, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1983-017
- Launches in 1983
- 18th of 129
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