Molniya-3 18L (Molniya-3 8), a Soviet civilian C-band communications satellite, launched on a Molniya-M from Plesetsk Site 43/3 into a highly elliptical 12-hour Molniya orbit for high-latitude coverage.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 91st
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 28 October 1977, 01:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1977-105
- Launches in 1977
- 110th of 130
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