A Molniya rocket launched the Molniya-1T military communications satellite from Plesetsk into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit, carrying the Teta payload for Russia's Korund defense telecommunications network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 255th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 24 September 1997, 21:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-054
- Launches in 1997
- 56th of 89
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