Molniya-M from Plesetsk Site 43/4 launched Molniya-3 21L (Molniya-3-12), a Soviet civilian communications satellite into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit providing high-latitude telephone and TV relay across the USSR.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 103rd
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 5 June 1979, 23:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1979-048
- Launches in 1979
- 49th of 110
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