Molniya-3 16L, a Soviet third-generation highly elliptical-orbit communications satellite for high-latitude telephone and TV coverage across the USSR. Molniya-M/Blok-ML from Plesetsk Site 41/1 placed the craft in Molniya orbit; it operated until February 1990.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 74th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 12 May 1976, 17:57 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1976-041
- Launches in 1976
- 42nd of 131
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