Molniya-M launch from Plesetsk carrying a Molniya-3 military communications satellite into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 257th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 1 July 1998, 00:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-040
- Launches in 1998
- 41st of 82
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