Molniya 3 n.36, a Soviet long-distance communications satellite, launched aboard a Molniya-M/2BL rocket from Plesetsk into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit to relay telephone, telegraph, and Orbita television signals across the USSR.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 218th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 23 January 1990, 02:51 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1990-006
- Launches in 1990
- 6th of 121
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