US-K 60 (Kosmos 2001)

Kosmos 2001, a US-K missile early warning satellite for the Soviet military's Oko program, launched on a Molniya-M rocket with a 2BL upper stage from Plesetsk into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit to detect US ICBM launches via infrared sensing.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

Elliptical

Elliptical orbit

Payload to orbit

1.6 T (est.)

Flight

212th

of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights

Date and time

14 February 1989, 04:21 UTC

Rocket

Molniya-M 2BL

Builder

Progress RSC

Launch site

43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Payload

Government/Top Secret

International designator

1989-011

Launches in 1989

11th of 102

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