Molniya-1 49 (Molniya-1K), a Soviet high-latitude communications satellite launched on a Molniya-M from Plesetsk Site 43/3 into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit to relay long-haul traffic across the northern USSR.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 121st
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 30 January 1981, 16:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1981-009
- Launches in 1981
- 10th of 126
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