Kosmos 2342, a US-K missile early warning satellite in Russia's Oko program, launched from Plesetsk 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
- 254th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 14 May 1997, 00:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1997-022
- Launches in 1997
- 23rd of 89
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