Molniya-3 17L (Molniya-3 6), a Soviet dual-use communications satellite in a highly elliptical Molniya orbit for domestic TV and long-haul C-band links, launched on a Molniya-M/Blok-ML from Plesetsk Site 43/4.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 81st
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 28 December 1976, 06:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1976-127
- Launches in 1976
- 130th of 131
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