Launched the Kosmos 2351 early-warning satellite from Plesetsk for the Soviet-legacy Oko missile-detection network, placing it into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 256th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 7 May 1998, 08:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1998-027
- Launches in 1998
- 28th of 82
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