Prognoz 2 (SO-M No. 2), a Soviet highly elliptical solar-and-magnetosphere research satellite studying solar activity and its effects on interplanetary space. Molniya-M from Baikonur delivered the ~845 kg craft into a deep elliptical orbit (~517 × 201,000 km).
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 36th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 29 June 1972, 03:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 1972-046
- Launches in 1972
- 49th of 113
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