Molniya-M from Plesetsk launched Molniya-1-59 (Molniya-1K 64L), a military communications satellite in highly elliptical Molniya orbit for Soviet long-range telephone, telegraph, and broadcast relay to high northern latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 153rd
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 23 November 1983, 16:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1983-114
- Launches in 1983
- 116th of 129
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