Molniya 8K78M launched from Plesetsk carried a Molniya-1T military communications satellite into its trademark highly elliptical orbit, relaying long-distance telephone, telegraph and Orbita television links across the USSR.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 224th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 10 August 1990, 20:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1990-071
- Launches in 1990
- 75th of 121
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