Kosmos 1446, a Zenit-6U (Argon #74) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, launched on a Soyuz-U2 from Baikonur LC-1/5 into low Earth orbit for short-duration optical reconnaissance imagery.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 16 March 1983, 08:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1983-018
- Launches in 1983
- 19th of 129
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