Molniya-M from Plesetsk Site 43/3 launched Molniya-1K 38 (46L), a Soviet military Korund-network communications satellite into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit for high-latitude coverage with the Beta transponder payload.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 89th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 30 August 1977, 18:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1977-082
- Launches in 1977
- 85th of 130
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