Molniya-1K 56 (Molniya-1K 65L), a Soviet highly elliptical-orbit communications satellite for the Orbita network. Molniya-M from Plesetsk put the craft into a ~12-hour Molniya orbit serving northern high-latitude regions with intermittent telephony and TV relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 146th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 16 March 1983, 18:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1983-019
- Launches in 1983
- 20th of 129
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