Molniya-M from Plesetsk launched Molniya-3 44L (Molniya-3 29) into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit for Soviet long-range telephone, telegraph, and Orbita television relay over high latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 185th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 19 June 1986, 21:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1986-049
- Launches in 1986
- 54th of 110
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