Kosmos-3M from Kapustin Yar lofted Kosmos 1494, a Taifun-2 radar-calibration satellite that released Romb subsatellites to simulate warheads for calibrating Soviet ground-based tracking radars.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 286th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 31 August 1983, 06:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 107/1, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1983-091
- Launches in 1983
- 92nd of 129
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