Molniya-M launch from Plesetsk carrying Interbol 1 and the Czech-built Magion 4 subsatellite, the first pair of the Russian-led international Interbol mission studying the solar wind's interaction with Earth's magnetosphere from a highly elliptical orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T
- Flight
- 247th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 2 August 1995, 23:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 1995-039
- Launches in 1995
- 43rd of 80
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