Soviet Space Program

Molniya-1 21

Molniya-M 2BL

SUCCESS
Success

Saturday, October 14, 1972 · 06:16 UTC

Mission

/01

The Molniya were Soviet communication satellites operating from an inclined highly elliptical earth orbit of 500 km × 40000 km with 12 hour period for coverage of high northern latitudes.

Mission Type

Communications

Orbit

Elliptical Orbit (Elliptical)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Successful

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Molniya-M 2BL

Variant: 2BL

Launch Pad

41/1

Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

62.941° N, 40.527° E

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260

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695

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88

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