Molniya 8K78M-PVB launched Kosmos 2217, an Oko early-warning satellite (Oko no. 70) for the Soviet/Russian missile-detection network, into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit to watch for U.S. ICBM launches.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 6th
- of 8 Molniya 8K78M-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 21 October 1992, 10:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya 8K78M-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1992-069
- Launches in 1992
- 71st of 97
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