Proton-K/Blok DM-2 launched Kosmos-2440, a US-KMO early-warning satellite in Russia's Oko missile-detection network, into geostationary orbit at 80 degrees East to monitor for ballistic missile launches against Russia, China, North Korea and parts of Europe and the Middle East.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 108th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 26 June 2008, 23:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2008-033
- Launches in 2008
- 33rd of 69
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