Launched Kosmos 2241, an Oko-series early-warning satellite placed into a Molniya-type highly elliptical orbit to detect US ballistic missile launches.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 237th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 6 April 1993, 19:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1993-022
- Launches in 1993
- 22nd of 83
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