Molniya-M launched a Molniya-3 satellite into a highly elliptical orbit to provide long-range Soviet telephone, telegraph and Orbita television relay communications.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 231st
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 17 September 1991, 20:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1991-065
- Launches in 1991
- 68th of 91
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