Molniya 1-76 (Molniya-1T), a Soviet military communications satellite, launched aboard a Molniya-M/2BL rocket from Plesetsk into a highly elliptical orbit to relay long-range telephone, telegraph, and Orbita television broadcasts across the USSR.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 215th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 27 September 1989, 14:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1989-078
- Launches in 1989
- 79th of 102
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