Molniya-3 communications satellite launched from Plesetsk into a 12-hour highly elliptical Molniya orbit to relay long-distance telephone, telegraph and Orbita television signals across the Soviet Union.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 217th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 28 November 1989, 10:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1989-094
- Launches in 1989
- 95th of 102
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