First flight of the fire-safety-modified Molniya 8K78M-PVB booster, orbiting Kosmos 2076, an Oko early-warning satellite for the Soviet missile-attack detection network, into a highly elliptical orbit from Plesetsk.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 221st
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 28 April 1990, 11:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1990-040
- Launches in 1990
- 42nd of 121
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