Launched a Molniya-3 communications satellite, the 43rd of its series, into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit from Plesetsk, providing telephone, telegraph and television relay coverage across Russia's high-latitude regions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 8 Molniya 8K78M-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 2 December 1992, 01:57 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya 8K78M-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1992-085
- Launches in 1992
- 87th of 97
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