Kosmos 2387 was a Yantar-class film-return military reconnaissance satellite launched on a Soyuz-U-PVB from Plesetsk for the Russian Ministry of Defence's optical imaging program; its recovery capsule landed roughly four months later.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 57th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 25 February 2002, 17:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2002-008
- Launches in 2002
- 8th of 65
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