Rokot/Briz-KM launched three Rodnik military communications satellites (Kosmos 2496-2498) and the secretive Kosmos 2499 - later suspected of being an experimental Russian satellite-inspection or anti-satellite prototype - from Plesetsk.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 940 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 21st
- of 31 Rokot/Briz-KM flights
- Date and time
- 23 May 2014, 05:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Rokot/Briz-KM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2014-028
- Launches in 2014
- 29th of 92
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