Molniya 8K78M-PVB launched Molniya 3-42, a civilian long-range telephone, telegraph, and Orbita television-relay satellite for the Soviet communications network, replacing Molniya 3-14 in a highly elliptical orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 8 Molniya 8K78M-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 14 October 1992, 19:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya 8K78M-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1992-067
- Launches in 1992
- 69th of 97
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