Molniya-M with a 2BL upper stage launched Kosmos 2261, a US-K missile early-warning satellite for the Soviet/Russian Oko program, placed into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit to detect ballistic missile launches via infrared sensors.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 241st
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 10 August 1993, 14:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1993-051
- Launches in 1993
- 53rd of 83
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