Molniya 1-51, a Soviet high-latitude communications satellite for the Orbita network. Molniya-M from Plesetsk lofted the craft into a highly elliptical 12-hour Molniya orbit covering northern USSR regions for TV and telephony relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 132nd
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 17 November 1981, 15:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1981-113
- Launches in 1981
- 115th of 126
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