Molniya-M/2BL launched Kosmos 2393, a US-K missile early-warning satellite of the Russian Oko system, into a Molniya orbit from Plesetsk to detect ballistic missile launches via infrared sensors.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 264th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 24 December 2002, 12:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2002-059
- Launches in 2002
- 62nd of 65
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