1964 · Soviet Space Program
Molniya-1 1a
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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
- June 4, 1964 at 04:00 AM UTC
- Outcome
- failure
- Launch site
- 1/5
- Mission
- Molniya-1 1a
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Elliptical Orbit