Molniya-3 No.30, a Soviet high-latitude communications satellite launched on a Molniya-M from Plesetsk Site 41/1 into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit to relay long-haul traffic across the northern USSR; operated until February 1998.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 125th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 9 June 1981, 03:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1981-054
- Launches in 1981
- 56th of 126
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