Molniya-M launched a Molniya-1 (Molniya 1-87) communications satellite from Plesetsk into a highly elliptical orbit, replacing an earlier spacecraft in the Soviet/Russian long-range telephone and telegraph relay network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 242nd
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 22 December 1993, 20:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1993-079
- Launches in 1993
- 83rd of 83
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