Kosmos 1463, a Taifun-1B (Yug) passive radar-calibration sphere for the Soviet military. Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk deployed the ~500 kg, 2 m smooth sphere as a known RCS target for ground-based radar calibration.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 750 kg
- Flight
- 281st
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 19 May 1983, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1983-046
- Launches in 1983
- 47th of 129
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