Molniya-M from Plesetsk launched Molniya-3 No. 36L into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit for the Orbita system, providing long-haul Soviet domestic television and telecommunications coverage of high latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 167th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 16 January 1985, 06:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1985-004
- Launches in 1985
- 4th of 125
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