Deployed Kosmos 2347, a US-PM electronic-intelligence ocean reconnaissance satellite (EORSAT) built to track naval vessels for the Russian Navy, launched from Baikonur's Site 90 into low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.4 T
- Flight
- 101st
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 9 December 1997, 07:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90/19, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1997-079
- Launches in 1997
- 82nd of 89
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