Molniya-M from Plesetsk lofted Molniya-3 32L into a highly elliptical 12-hour orbit, a civilian C-band communications satellite providing television and telephone coverage of high northern latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 152nd
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 30 August 1983, 22:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1983-090
- Launches in 1983
- 91st of 129
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