Molniya-M from Plesetsk placed Molniya-1T 70 (78L) into a highly elliptical 12-hour orbit, a Soviet military communications satellite providing high-latitude telephone and data relay coverage.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 196th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 26 December 1986, 15:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1986-103
- Launches in 1986
- 110th of 110
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