Soyuz-U from Plesetsk lofted Kosmos 1496, a Yantar-4K1 (Oktan) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for detailed imaging of ground targets for the Soviet military.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 339th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 7 September 1983, 13:24 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1983-093
- Launches in 1983
- 94th of 129
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