Molniya-2 8, a Soviet C-band communications satellite launched on a Molniya-M from Plesetsk into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit for government and civilian links to high northern latitudes via Orbita-2.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 51st
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 25 December 1973, 11:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1973-106
- Launches in 1973
- 113th of 116
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