Molniya-2 4, a Soviet high-elliptical-orbit communications satellite launched on a Molniya-M from Plesetsk for national military and civil relay coverage of high latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 41st
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 12 December 1972, 06:51 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1972-098
- Launches in 1972
- 105th of 113
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