1966 · Soviet Space Program
Molniya-1 3a
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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.
Overview
- Date / time
- March 27, 1966 at 07:20 AM UTC
- Outcome
- failure
- Launch site
- 31/6
- Mission
- Molniya-1 3a
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Elliptical Orbit