Molniya-M (Blok-SO-L) from Baikonur Site 31/6 launched Prognoz 7 (SO-M 507), a Soviet highly elliptical-orbit satellite studying solar radiation, plasma, and Earth’s magnetosphere, with Czechoslovak, French, Hungarian, and Swedish experiments.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.3 T
- Flight
- 100th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 30 October 1978, 05:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 1978-101
- Launches in 1978
- 105th of 128
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