Launched Cosmos 2105, an Oko early-warning satellite, from Plesetsk into a Molniya orbit to detect ballistic missile launches via infrared observation of US missile fields.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 8 Molniya 8K78M-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 20 November 1990, 02:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya 8K78M-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1990-099
- Launches in 1990
- 104th of 121
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