Molniya-M from Plesetsk launched Molniya-3 31L (Molniya-3 17), a Soviet civilian C-band communications satellite into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit providing coverage of high northern latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 130th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 17 October 1981, 05:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1981-105
- Launches in 1981
- 107th of 126
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