Soyuz-U from Plesetsk launched Kosmos 1509, a Zenit-6U (Argon) medium-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military on a short LEO imaging flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 347th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 17 November 1983, 12:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1983-112
- Launches in 1983
- 114th of 129
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