Molniya-2 5, a Soviet high-elliptical-orbit civil communications satellite for the YeSSS network, carrying telephony and television traffic across the USSR. Molniya-M (Blok-ML) from Plesetsk Site 41/1 placed the craft into a Molniya orbit on 5 April 1973.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 44th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 5 April 1973, 11:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1973-018
- Launches in 1973
- 18th of 116
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