A Molniya booster launched Molniya-3 No. 47 into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit to relay long-distance telephone, telegraph, and Soviet Central Television signals across the USSR's Orbita network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 225th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 20 September 1990, 20:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1990-084
- Launches in 1990
- 88th of 121
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