Cosmos 2046, a Soviet US-P (EORSAT) ocean-reconnaissance satellite built to track NATO naval vessels by their electronic emissions, launched from Baikonur aboard a Tsiklon-2 rocket into a roughly 400 km orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T
- Flight
- 86th
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 27 September 1989, 16:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-079
- Launches in 1989
- 80th of 102
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