Molniya-1 3a Mission

Launch Status

Failure

Date & Time

27 Mar 1966, 7:20am

Location

Baikonur Cosmodrome Launch Site

Baikonur Cosmodrome

Pad

31/6

Launch Service Provider

Soviet Space Program logo

Soviet Space Program

Vehicle

Molniya 8K78 image

Molniya 8K78

Mission

Molniya-1 3a

Mission Type

Communications

Destination

Elliptical Orbit

The Molniya were Soviet communication satellites operating from an inclined highly elliptical earth orbit of 500 km × 40000 km with 12 hour period for coverage of high northern latitudes.

Updated: Jan 3, 7:54pm UTC

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