Molniya-M from Plesetsk launched Molniya 1-50, a Soviet civilian communications satellite into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit providing telephone, telegraph, and TV coverage of high northern latitudes until December 1991.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 127th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 24 June 1981, 17:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1981-060
- Launches in 1981
- 62nd of 126
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