Kosmos 1501, a Taifun-2 (#18) radar-calibration satellite that released 24 Romb subsatellites simulating warheads, launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk into low Earth orbit for Soviet radar calibration tests.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 287th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 30 September 1983, 11:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1983-101
- Launches in 1983
- 103rd of 129
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