Molniya-M from Plesetsk placed Molniya-3 32 (s/n 49L) into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit, adding a civilian C-band communications satellite for coverage of high northern latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 204th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 26 May 1988, 15:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1988-044
- Launches in 1988
- 45th of 121
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