A Proton-K/DM-2 launched Kosmos 2397, a US-KMO early-warning satellite for detecting ballistic missile launches, into geostationary orbit as part of Russia's Oko missile-attack warning network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 101st
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 24 April 2003, 04:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2003-015
- Launches in 2003
- 15th of 63
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