Orbited Molniya-1T No. 80L (Molniya-1T 71), a Soviet communications satellite placed into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit from Baikonur for high-latitude civil and military coverage.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 202nd
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 11 March 1988, 06:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1988-017
- Launches in 1988
- 18th of 121
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