Molniya-M launched Kosmos 2368, a US-K missile early-warning satellite for Russia's Oko program, from Plesetsk into a Molniya orbit, where its optical telescope and infrared sensors watched for ballistic missile launches.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 260th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 27 December 1999, 19:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1999-073
- Launches in 1999
- 78th of 78
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