Molniya-3 12L (Molniya-3 2), a Soviet Molniya-orbit C-band communications satellite launched on a Molniya-M from Plesetsk for civilian coverage of high northern latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 61st
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 14 April 1975, 17:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1975-029
- Launches in 1975
- 32nd of 132
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