Launched the Molniya-3-50 communications relay satellite from Plesetsk into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit, extending coverage of Russia's Molniya-3 store-and-forward and television relay network over polar and high-latitude regions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 259th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 8 July 1999, 08:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-036
- Launches in 1999
- 38th of 78
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