Launched from Plesetsk, this Molniya-M/2BL flight placed Kosmos 2286, a Soviet-legacy US-K missile early-warning satellite of the Oko program, into a highly elliptical orbit to detect US ICBM launches via infrared sensors.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 243rd
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 5 August 1994, 01:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1994-048
- Launches in 1994
- 51st of 93
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