Launched Kosmos 2345, the last Soviet/Russian US-KS early-warning satellite of the Oko program, designed to detect ballistic missile launches with optical telescopes and infrared sensors from geostationary orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 90th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 14 August 1997, 20:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1997-041
- Launches in 1997
- 43rd of 89
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