Molniya-M launched Cosmos 2446, a first-generation US-KS early-warning satellite of the Oko system for detecting ballistic missile launches, placed into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit from Plesetsk.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 271st
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 2 December 2008, 04:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2008-062
- Launches in 2008
- 64th of 69
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