Kosmos 1305, a Molniya-3 high-latitude communications satellite launched on a Molniya-M from Plesetsk; an upper-stage malfunction left it in a lower, unusable medium-Earth orbit instead of the planned Molniya path.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 129th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 11 September 1981, 08:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1981-088
- Launches in 1981
- 90th of 126
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