Cosmos 2311, a Yantar-class film-return photo-reconnaissance satellite, launched aboard a Soyuz-U-PVB from Plesetsk the same day as the Cosmos 2310 navigation launch, for a roughly two-month surveillance mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 37th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 22 March 1995, 16:44 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1995-014
- Launches in 1995
- 16th of 80
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