Molniya-M from Plesetsk launched Molniya-3 No.19 (33L), a Soviet highly elliptical-orbit communications satellite providing long-range military and civil links over high northern latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 142nd
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 27 August 1982, 00:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1982-083
- Launches in 1982
- 87th of 129
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