Soyuz-U2 launched Kosmos 2262, an Orlets-1 film-return photoreconnaissance satellite used by Soviet/Russian military intelligence to image ground targets from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 66th
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 7 September 1993, 13:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1993-057
- Launches in 1993
- 59th of 83
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