Molniya-1K 40 (Molniya-1K 53L), a Soviet military Korund-network 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 T
- Flight
- 94th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 2 June 1978, 12:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-055
- Launches in 1978
- 57th of 128
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