Carried Cosmos 2232, an Oko-series early warning satellite, into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit to detect ballistic missile launches for Soviet/Russian strategic defense.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 236th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 26 January 1993, 15:55 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1993-006
- Launches in 1993
- 6th of 83
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