Kosmos 1761, a US-K (Oko) early-warning satellite, launched on a Molniya-M/2BL from Plesetsk into a highly elliptical orbit. It watched for U.S. ICBM launches with infrared telescopes as part of the Soviet missile-attack warning network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 186th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 5 July 1986, 01:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1986-050
- Launches in 1986
- 55th of 110
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