Molniya-3 34L (Molniya-3 20), a Soviet highly elliptical-orbit communications satellite for the Orbita network. Molniya-M from Plesetsk delivered the ~1.6-tonne craft into a ~12-hour Molniya orbit for multi-channel telephony and TV to high-latitude users.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 145th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 11 March 1983, 15:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1983-015
- Launches in 1983
- 16th of 129
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