Molniya-M from Plesetsk launched Molniya-1-45 (Molniya-1K 49L), a Soviet military communications satellite into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit providing high-latitude coverage across the USSR.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 107th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 20 October 1979, 07:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1979-091
- Launches in 1979
- 95th of 110
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