Kosmos 2050, a Molniya-1T military communications satellite, launched from Plesetsk into a 12-hour highly elliptical orbit to relay data and communications for Soviet armed forces.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 216th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 23 November 1989, 20:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-091
- Launches in 1989
- 92nd of 102
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