Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk launched Kosmos 1455, a Tselina-D (Ikar) electronic-intelligence satellite that collected foreign radar and communications emissions from low Earth orbit for the Soviet military.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.8 T
- Flight
- 17th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 23 April 1983, 14:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1983-037
- Launches in 1983
- 38th of 129
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