Astron 1, a Soviet UV and X-ray astrophysics observatory on a Venera-derived bus with a Soviet-French UV telescope, launched on a Proton-K/D-1 from Baikonur into a highly elliptical multi-day orbit; operated until 1989.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 12 Proton-K/D-1 flights
- Date and time
- 23 March 1983, 12:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/D-1
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1983-020
- Launches in 1983
- 21st of 129
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