Molniya-3 18 (29L), 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.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 136th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 24 March 1982, 00:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1982-023
- Launches in 1982
- 24th of 129
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