Interkosmos 23 (Prognoz 10), a Soviet-led magnetospheric research satellite, launched on a Molniya-M from Baikonur into a highly elliptical orbit. It studied solar-wind interaction with Earth's magnetosphere under the Interkosmos program.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 168th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 26 April 1985, 05:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 1985-033
- Launches in 1985
- 34th of 125
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