Kosmos 1500, the first Okean-OE experimental ocean-monitoring satellite, launched on a Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk into low Earth orbit with side-looking radar and microwave radiometers for sea-surface and ice observation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 19th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 28 September 1983, 07:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1983-099
- Launches in 1983
- 101st of 129
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