Molniya-2 3, a Soviet second-generation communications satellite in highly elliptical Molniya orbit. Molniya-M from Plesetsk delivered the craft for improved civilian and military TV and telecommunications relay over northern latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 38th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 30 September 1972, 20:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1972-075
- Launches in 1972
- 80th of 113
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