Soyuz-U from Plesetsk lofted Kosmos 1512, a Zenit-6U (Argon) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite that recovered military imagery via a reentry capsule after a roughly two-week mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 349th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 7 December 1983, 12:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1983-119
- Launches in 1983
- 121st of 129
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