Soyuz-U launched the classified Kosmos 2349 military satellite from Baikonur, a Yantar-series photographic reconnaissance spacecraft that also gathered topographic mapping imagery of the United States under a Russian-American contract.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 42nd
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 17 February 1998, 10:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1998-009
- Launches in 1998
- 10th of 82
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