Molniya-1 22, a Soviet high-elliptical-orbit communications satellite launched on a Molniya-M from Baikonur for military and civil relay over high-latitude regions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 40th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 2 December 1972, 04:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1972-095
- Launches in 1972
- 102nd of 113
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