Prognoz 9 (SO-M 509), a Soviet astrophysics satellite launched on a Molniya-M from Baikonur into a highly elliptical orbit, carrying the Relikt experiment to map cosmic microwave background anisotropy plus solar and magnetospheric instruments.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 149th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 1 July 1983, 12:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1983-067
- Launches in 1983
- 68th of 129
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