Launched Kosmos 2344, the Arkon-1 satellite, an advanced Russian electro-optical imaging reconnaissance spacecraft roughly the size of a school bus; a battery failure shortly after reaching orbit limited it to about four months of operation before it was lost.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 6 Proton-K/17S40 flights
- Date and time
- 6 June 1997, 16:56 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/17S40
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1997-028
- Launches in 1997
- 30th of 89
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