Molniya-1T 67 (72L), a military high-latitude communications satellite launched on a Molniya-M from Plesetsk into a highly elliptical 12-hour orbit. It relayed strategic and tactical traffic for Soviet forces covering polar and northern regions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 187th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 30 July 1986, 15:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1986-057
- Launches in 1986
- 62nd of 110
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