Kosmos 1615, a Taifun-1B (Yug #8) radar-calibration target satellite for the Soviet military, launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk into low Earth orbit to support air- and missile-defense radar testing.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 750 kg
- Flight
- 309th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 20 December 1984, 13:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1984-127
- Launches in 1984
- 127th of 129
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