Kosmos 2227, a Tselina-class electronic intelligence satellite, launched to low Earth orbit to intercept foreign radar and communications signals for Soviet/Russian military reconnaissance.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.8 T
- Flight
- 102nd
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 25 December 1992, 20:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1992-094
- Launches in 1992
- 96th of 97
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