Kosmos 2224, a US-KMO missile early-warning satellite in the Oko program, launched to geostationary orbit from Baikonur; it went on to operate for 77 months, the longest of any US-KMO satellite up to that point.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 62nd
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 17 December 1992, 12:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1992-088
- Launches in 1992
- 90th of 97
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