Molniya-M launched Molniya 1-81, a Soviet communications satellite placed into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit to relay television and long-distance telephone, telegraph, and phototelephone links through the Orbita ground network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 229th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 18 June 1991, 09:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1991-043
- Launches in 1991
- 44th of 91
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