Molniya-1 No.1 (Molniya-1 3L), the first successfully orbited Soviet Molniya-1 long-haul communications satellite, launched on a Molniya 8K78 from Baikonur into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit for domestic TV and telephone relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.3 T
- Flight
- 25th
- of 40 Molniya 8K78 flights
- Date and time
- 23 April 1965, 01:55 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya 8K78
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1965-030
- Launches in 1965
- 35th of 124
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