Molniya-1 12 Mission

Launch Status

Success

Date & Time

22 Jul 1969, 12:55pm

Location

Baikonur Cosmodrome Launch Site

Baikonur Cosmodrome

Pad

1/5

Launch Service Provider

Soviet Space Program logo

Soviet Space Program

Vehicle

Molniya-M 2BL

Mission

Molniya-1 12

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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