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Yantar-4K2 5

Success Soviet Union, Soyuz U

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Film-return reconnaissance satellite

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to orbit0 km1,150 km downrange200 km up

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Launch window and padPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
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Rocket and boosterSoyuz U
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Soyuz U

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MissionGovernment/Top Secret · LEO

Government/Top Secret · LEO

What it put in orbit3 catalogued objects
ObjectTypeOrbit
COSMOS 1539 1984-020A Payload re-entered 1984-04-09
SL-4 R/B 1984-020B Rocket body re-entered 1984-03-03
COSMOS 1539 DEB 1984-020C Debris re-entered 1984-04-09

COSPAR ID 1984-020. Orbits from the CelesTrak satellite catalogue (perigee × apogee, inclination).

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