Launched Molniya-3 No. 45 into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit (roughly 1,436 x 38,918 km, 64.8-degree inclination) from Plesetsk to relay long-distance telephone and telegraph traffic across the USSR and distribute Central Television broadcasts to remote Orbita ground stations.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 214th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 8 June 1989, 17:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1989-043
- Launches in 1989
- 43rd of 102
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