Prognoz 6, a Soviet SO-M scientific satellite studying solar activity, solar wind, plasma, and Earth's magnetosphere. Molniya-M from Baikonur Site 31/6 placed the ~910 kg craft in a highly elliptical ~488 × 198,000 km orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 90th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 22 September 1977, 00:51 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 1977-093
- Launches in 1977
- 97th of 130
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