Placed a Molniya-3 communications satellite into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit from Plesetsk, extending the Soviet long-distance telephone and television relay network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 228th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 22 March 1991, 12:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1991-022
- Launches in 1991
- 22nd of 91
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