Launched Molniya 1-74, a Molniya-1T communications satellite, into the highly elliptical Molniya orbit to relay long-distance telephone and telegraph traffic and USSR Central Television broadcasts across the Soviet Union.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 211th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 28 December 1988, 05:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1988-115
- Launches in 1988
- 120th of 121
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