Molniya-3 22L (Molniya 3-10), a Soviet C-band civilian communications satellite, launched on a Molniya-M from Plesetsk Site 43/3 into a highly elliptical 12-hour orbit for telephone, telegraph, and TV relay over high northern latitudes via the Orbita network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 99th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 13 October 1978, 05:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1978-095
- Launches in 1978
- 98th of 128
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