Molniya-1 20, a Soviet highly elliptical-orbit communications satellite launched on a Molniya-M from Plesetsk, with French technology satellite SRET 1 (MAS 1) as a rideshare—the first French–Soviet cooperative satellite launch.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 33rd
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 4 April 1972, 20:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1972-025
- Launches in 1972
- 26th of 113
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