Launched Kosmos 1966, a US-K missile early-warning satellite for the Soviet Oko program, into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit from Plesetsk. Its infrared sensors and telescope watched for the exhaust plumes of US ICBM and SLBM launches.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 206th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 30 August 1988, 14:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1988-076
- Launches in 1988
- 80th of 121
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