Molniya-M from Plesetsk launched Molniya-1 (Molniya-1K 53 / 1T), a Soviet military communications satellite on a highly elliptical Molniya orbit covering high northern latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 134th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 26 February 1982, 20:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1982-015
- Launches in 1982
- 15th of 129
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