Molniya-M launched the Molniya-1T military communications satellite from Plesetsk into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit for the Russian armed forces relay network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 250th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 14 August 1996, 22:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1996-045
- Launches in 1996
- 49th of 77
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