K65M-RB from Kapustin Yar lofted Kosmos 1517, a BOR-4 subscale lifting-body test vehicle that flew one orbit then glided to ocean recovery, validating Buran heat-shield materials on reentry.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 4 K65M-RB flights
- Date and time
- 27 December 1983, 10:00 UTC
- Rocket
- K65M-RB
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 107, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1983-125
- Launches in 1983
- 127th of 129
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