1964 · Soviet Space Program
Molniya-1 1b
successMolniya 8K78 | Molniya-1 1b
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
- August 22, 1964 at 07:21 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- 1/5
- Mission
- Molniya-1 1b
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Elliptical Orbit