Molniya-M from Plesetsk launched Molniya-1K 41 (s/n 51L), a Soviet military communications satellite into a highly elliptical 12-hour Molniya orbit for high-latitude coverage of the USSR.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 96th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 14 July 1978, 15:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-072
- Launches in 1978
- 74th of 128
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