Molniya-M launched from Plesetsk carrying the Molniya-3-44 military communications satellite for the Soviet/Russian Molniya-3 store-and-forward relay network into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 240th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 4 August 1993, 00:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1993-049
- Launches in 1993
- 51st of 83
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