Soyuz-U2 from Baikonur launched Kosmos 1542, 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
- 4th
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 7 March 1984, 08:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1984-025
- Launches in 1984
- 25th of 129
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