Kosmos 862 (US-K #5), a Soviet Oko missile early-warning satellite on a highly elliptical Molniya orbit. Molniya-M/Blok-2BL from Plesetsk Site 43/4 deployed the fifth HEO US-K craft with infrared sensors to detect ballistic-missile launches.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 78th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 22 October 1976, 09:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1976-105
- Launches in 1976
- 107th of 131
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