Kosmos 41, the first Molniya-1 communications satellite to reach orbit, launched on a Molniya 8K78 from Baikonur into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit for Soviet long-haul communications tests; its parabolic antennas failed to deploy fully, limiting the mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.3 T
- Flight
- 21st
- of 40 Molniya 8K78 flights
- Date and time
- 22 August 1964, 07:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya 8K78
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1964-049
- Launches in 1964
- 58th of 100
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