Kosmos 1503, a Strela-2M (#33) military store-and-dump communications satellite for the Soviet armed forces, launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk into low Earth orbit for tactical message relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 289th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 12 October 1983, 00:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1983-103
- Launches in 1983
- 105th of 129
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