Tsiklon-2 launched from Baikonur carried Kosmos 2096, a US-P electronic ocean-reconnaissance satellite that used passive ELINT sensors to track NATO naval vessels by their radio and radar emissions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T
- Flight
- 89th
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 23 August 1990, 16:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1990-075
- Launches in 1990
- 79th of 121
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