Molniya-3 20L, a Soviet Molniya-series communications satellite for long-range military and civilian links. Molniya-M (Blok-ML) from Plesetsk Site 43/3 placed the craft in a highly elliptical ~12-hour Molniya orbit covering high northern latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 92nd
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 24 January 1978, 06:51 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1978-009
- Launches in 1978
- 9th of 128
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