Launched Cosmos 2176, a US-K Oko missile early-warning satellite, from Plesetsk into a Molniya-type elliptical orbit to detect ballistic missile launches via infrared sensors.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 232nd
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 24 January 1992, 01:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1992-003
- Launches in 1992
- 3rd of 97
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