Molniya-M from Baikonur launched Molniya-1K 58 (66L), a Soviet military communications satellite in highly elliptical Molniya orbit for long-range telephone, telegraph, and broadcast relay to high northern latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 151st
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 19 July 1983, 15:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1983-073
- Launches in 1983
- 74th of 129
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