Launched Molniya 1-91, a Russian communications satellite placed into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit to relay television and long-distance telephone traffic between Moscow and remote Orbita ground stations.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 258th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 28 September 1998, 23:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-054
- Launches in 1998
- 59th of 82
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