Deployed Kosmos 2430, an Oko missile-early-warning satellite for Russia's Ministry of Defence, into a highly elliptical orbit from Plesetsk; briefly believed to be the Molniya-M's final flight before further launches followed in 2008 and 2010.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 270th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 23 October 2007, 04:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2007-049
- Launches in 2007
- 52nd of 68
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