Molniya-2 15, a Soviet second-generation highly elliptical-orbit communications satellite of the YeSSS system for telephone and TV links at high latitudes. Molniya-M/Blok-ML from Plesetsk Site 43/3 placed the craft in Molniya orbit on 17 December 1975.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 68th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 17 December 1975, 11:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1975-121
- Launches in 1975
- 127th of 132
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