Launched Molniya 3-34 into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit to relay long-distance telephone, telegraph, and USSR Central Television signals across the Soviet Union's Orbita ground station network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 210th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 22 December 1988, 14:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1988-112
- Launches in 1988
- 117th of 121
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