Molniya-1T 69 (77L), a military Korund-network communications satellite launched on a Molniya-M from Plesetsk into a highly elliptical 12-hour orbit. It provided reliable high-latitude coverage for Soviet forces with improved Teta-payload wave tubes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 193rd
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 15 November 1986, 21:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1986-089
- Launches in 1986
- 95th of 110
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