flown missionSuccess
Molniya-M | Molniya-1 31
Soviet Space Program41/1 — Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Molniya-1 31
- Type
- Communications
- Target orbit
- Elliptical Orbit (Elliptical)
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.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Family
- R-7
- Variant
- 2BL
- Provider
- Soviet Space Program
- Type
- Government
- Country
- RUS
launch site
- Pad
- 41/1
- Location
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Country
- RUS
- Timezone
- Europe/Moscow
- Coordinates
- 62.9410, 40.5268