Launched a Molniya-3 military and civil communications satellite from Plesetsk into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit, relaying long-distance telephone and telegraph traffic and Central Television's Orbita network broadcasts across the USSR.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 222nd
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 13 June 1990, 01:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1990-052
- Launches in 1990
- 54th of 121
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