Kosmos 2350

{{Infobox spaceflight

| name = Kosmos 2350

| mission_type = Early warning

| operator = VKS

| COSPAR_ID = 1998-025A

| SATCAT = 25315

| mission_duration = 5-7 years (estimate)
2 months (actual)

| spacecraft_type = US-KMO (71Kh6)

| manufacturer = Lavochkin

| launch_mass = {{convert|2600|kg}}

| launch_date = {{start-date|29 April 1998, 04:36:00|timezone=yes}} UTC

| launch_rocket = Proton-K/DM-2

| launch_site = Baikonur 200/39

| entered_service =

| disposal_type =

| deactivated = 29 June 1998

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| orbit_reference = Geocentric

| orbit_regime = Geostationary

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| apsis = gee

| instruments = Infrared telescope with {{convert|1|m}} aperture

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Kosmos 2350 ({{langx|ru|Космос 2350}} meaning Cosmos 2350) is a Russian US-KMO missile early warning satellite which was launched in 1998 as part of the Russian Space Forces' Oko programme. The satellite is designed to identify missile launches using infrared telescopes.

Kosmos 2350 was launched from Site 200/39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A Proton-K carrier rocket with a DM-2 upper stage was used to perform the launch, which took place at 04:36 UTC on 29 April 1998. The launch successfully placed the satellite into geostationary orbit. It subsequently received its Kosmos designation, and the international designator 1998-025A. The United States Space Command assigned it the Satellite Catalog Number 25315.

This satellite only worked for 2 months before failing.

The US National Space Science Data Center describe this as a Potok military communications satellite instead of an early warning satellite.

See also

References

{{cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1998-025A|title=Cosmos 2350|publisher=National Space Science Data Centre|date=2012-04-10|access-date=2012-04-19}}

{{cite web|url=http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/us-kmo.htm|title=US-KMO (71Kh6)|publisher=Gunter's Space Page|date=2012-03-30|access-date=2012-04-19}}

{{Cite journal

|first=Pavel

|last=Podvig

|year=2002

|title=History and the Current Status of the Russian Early-Warning System

|journal=Science and Global Security

|volume=10

|issue=1

|pages=21–60

|issn=0892-9882

|doi= 10.1080/08929880212328

|bibcode=2002S&GS...10...21P

|s2cid=122901563

|url=http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/20734/Podvig-S&GS.pdf

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315024323/http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/20734/Podvig-S%26GS.pdf

|archive-date=2012-03-15

}}

{{Orbital launches in 1998}}

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