Molniya-3 23L (Molniya 3-11), a Soviet highly elliptical-orbit communications satellite, launched on a Molniya-M from Plesetsk Site 43/4 for telephone, telegraph, and TV relay over high-latitude regions via the Orbita network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 101st
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 18 January 1979, 15:42 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1979-004
- Launches in 1979
- 4th of 110
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