A Molniya-M rocket launched from Plesetsk placed the Kosmos 2422 satellite, believed to be a Russian military early-warning spacecraft for detecting foreign missile launches, into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 269th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 21 July 2006, 04:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2006-030
- Launches in 2006
- 32nd of 66
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