Molniya-M launch from Plesetsk carrying Molniya 3-47, a military strategic communications satellite placed into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit as part of the Soviet/Russian long-range relay network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 248th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 9 August 1995, 02:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1995-042
- Launches in 1995
- 46th of 80
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