Soyuz-U from Plesetsk lofted Kosmos 1514 (Bion 6), the first Soviet biosatellite to fly non-human primates—rhesus monkeys Abrek and Bion—plus pregnant rats on a five-day biomedical research flight with international experiments.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 350th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 14 December 1983, 07:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Biology
- International designator
- 1983-121
- Launches in 1983
- 123rd of 129
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