Prognoz 8, a Soviet scientific satellite for solar and magnetospheric research in a highly elliptical Earth orbit. Molniya-M from Baikonur Site 31/6; studied solar wind, plasma, and geomagnetic disturbances through 1984.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 119th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 25 December 1980, 04:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 1980-103
- Launches in 1980
- 106th of 108
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