Kosmos 1450, a Taifun-1 (Vektor #15) active radar-calibration satellite for the Soviet military, launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk—a roughly 500 kg solar-cell-covered sphere used to calibrate ground and shipborne radars.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 570 kg
- Flight
- 277th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 6 April 1983, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1983-027
- Launches in 1983
- 28th of 129
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