Launched Kosmos 2469, an Oko early-warning satellite, from Plesetsk into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit. This was the final flight of the Molniya-M launch vehicle, retiring the rocket after roughly five decades and 320 launches.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.7 T
- Flight
- 272nd
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 30 September 2010, 17:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2010-049
- Launches in 2010
- 51st of 74
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