Placed the Molniya-3-46 military communications satellite into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit from Plesetsk, replacing the aging Molniya 3-40 in the Soviet-legacy strategic comms constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 244th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 23 August 1994, 14:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1994-051
- Launches in 1994
- 54th of 93
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