Molniya-1T 66 (76L), a Soviet military communications satellite, launched on a Molniya-M from Plesetsk into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit. It provided high-latitude military and government communications over the USSR.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 180th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 28 October 1985, 17:24 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1985-103
- Launches in 1985
- 107th of 125
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