Prognoz 1 (SO-501), the first Soviet Prognoz heliophysics satellite, launched on a Molniya-M from Baikonur into a highly elliptical orbit to study solar activity and its effects on the magnetosphere.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 34th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 14 April 1972, 00:54 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 1972-029
- Launches in 1972
- 30th of 113
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