Molniya-M from Plesetsk placed Molniya-3 42L (Molniya-3 31) into a highly elliptical 12-hour orbit, a Soviet C-band civilian communications satellite providing telephone, telegraph, and TV relay for high northern latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 197th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 22 January 1987, 16:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1987-008
- Launches in 1987
- 8th of 114
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