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Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 75

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 31, 1983, 10:50 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Optical film-return reconnaissance satellite

Low Earth Orbit
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Kosmos-3M | Parus 37

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 30, 1983, 1:10 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Navigation satellite providing location information for the Tsiklon-B navigation system

Low Earth Orbit
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Atlas E | NOAA 8

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
March 28, 1983, 3:52 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Fourth generation NOAA meteorological satellite

Geostationary Orbit
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Kosmos-3M | Nadezhda 2

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 24, 1983, 8:55 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Civilian navigation satellite equivalent to the purely military Parus

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Proton-K/D-1 | Astron

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 23, 1983, 12:45 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Soviet astronomy orbital station for UV and X-ray astrophysical observations

Elliptical Orbit
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Molniya-M | Molniya-1K 56

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 16, 1983, 6:14 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Military communications satellite in a highly elliptic orbit

Elliptical Orbit
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Soyuz-U | Zenit-6U 74

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 16, 1983, 8:50 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Optical film-return reconnaissance satellite

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K65M-RB | BOR-4 403

Production Corporation Polyot | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
March 15, 1983, 10:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Test flight of a test article for the Spiral lifting body spacecraft

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Proton-K/DM | Ekran

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 12, 1983, 2 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Ekran was a Soviet series of geostationary satellites which were the first in the world to provide Direct-To-Home TV service.

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Molniya-M | Molniya-3 34L

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 11, 1983, 3:29 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Molniya communication satellites operating from a highly elliptical orbit

Elliptical Orbit
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