Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk launched Kosmos 1453, a Taifun-2 (Romb) radar-calibration target satellite that released sub-satellites used to train and calibrate Soviet air- and space-defense radars.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 279th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 19 April 1983, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1983-034
- Launches in 1983
- 35th of 129
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