Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk launched Kosmos 1508 (Taifun-1 / Vektor), a Soviet radar-calibration and test-target satellite used to support air- and missile-defense sensor trials.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 570 kg
- Flight
- 291st
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 11 November 1983, 12:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1983-111
- Launches in 1983
- 113th of 129
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