Molniya-M from Plesetsk lofted Kosmos 1518, a US-K (Oko) missile early-warning satellite placed in a highly elliptical Molniya orbit to watch for ICBM launches for the Soviet military.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 155th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 28 December 1983, 03:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1983-126
- Launches in 1983
- 128th of 129
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