A Molniya-M rocket launched Molniya-1(82), a Molniya-1T communications satellite, from Plesetsk into a highly elliptical orbit to relay long-distance telephone, telegraph, and Soviet Central Television signals via the Orbita network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 230th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 1 August 1991, 11:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1991-053
- Launches in 1991
- 55th of 91
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