A Molniya-M rocket launched Molniya-1T into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit from Plesetsk to relay long-distance telephone, telegraph and Central Television broadcasts across the USSR's Orbita communications network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 205th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 12 August 1988, 12:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1988-069
- Launches in 1988
- 73rd of 121
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