Molniya-M from Plesetsk launched Molniya-1 54 (Molniya-1K 63L), a Soviet highly elliptical-orbit communications satellite providing long-range links over high northern latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 139th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 28 May 1982, 22:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1982-050
- Launches in 1982
- 52nd of 129
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