Molniya-1 No.7, a Soviet highly elliptical communications satellite launched on a Molniya (8K78) from Baikonur Site 1/5 to provide long-haul radio, TV, and telephone links across the USSR via the Molniya orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.3 T
- Flight
- 40th
- of 40 Molniya 8K78 flights
- Date and time
- 22 October 1967, 08:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya 8K78
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1967-101
- Launches in 1967
- 112th of 139
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