Tsiklon-2 launched Kosmos 2244, a US-PU naval ocean-reconnaissance (EORSAT) satellite for Soviet/Russian signals intelligence, the second of three spacecraft spaced 120 degrees apart in the same orbital plane.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.4 T
- Flight
- 94th
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 28 April 1993, 03:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90/20, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1993-029
- Launches in 1993
- 29th of 83
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