Cosmos 2331

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General

Designation	23818 / 96016A
Launch date	14 Mar 1996 at 17:45 UT
Country of origin	CIS
Mission	Military: reconnaissance (Yantar')
Perigee/Apogee	164/355 km
Inclination	67.1°
Period
Launch vehicle	Soyuz
Launch site	Plesetsk

This Russian Defense Ministry payload carries a US DoD secondary experiment launched as part of the Space Test Program (STP), the BINRAD package which will attempt to detect the presence of beryllium at orbital altitudes. BINRAD was flown twice before on Russian civilian Resurs F remote sensing missions.

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