Launched two classified Russian military satellites, Kosmos-2577 and Kosmos-2578, from Plesetsk into sun-synchronous orbit, believed to be small experimental reconnaissance spacecraft; third orbital flight of the light Angara 1.2.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 520 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 7 Angara 1.2 flights
- Date and time
- 17 September 2024, 07:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Angara 1.2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 35/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2024-166
- Launches in 2024
- 171st of 263
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