Molniya-1S (Molniya-1S 38L), the first operating Soviet geostationary communications satellite—a modified Molniya-1—launched on a Proton-K/Blok-DM from Baikonur after the Kosmos 637 GEO pathfinder.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.5 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 29 July 1974, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1974-060
- Launches in 1974
- 65th of 113
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