Molniya 123

 1973-007A

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The next Molniya-1 (F28, N23) was launched from Baikonur into the C plane. The satellite carried a proton spectrometer from Moscow State University (MGU).

Molniya-1 F28
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1973 Feb 3	0548:59	Launch by 8K78M	KB
		BVGD sep
		GO sep
		T+4:46 Blok A sep
		T+4:56 KhO sep
		T+8:46 Blok-I MECO
	0557	T+8:50 Blok-I sep
		T+53:16 BOZ burn
	0642?	T+53:56 BOZ sep
		ML burn
		T+56:46 ML MECO
	0645?	T+56:54 ML sep
1973 Feb 8	1607		703.14 303 x 39327 x 65.0
1973 Feb			703.2 470 x 39164 x 65.0 (RAE)
1973 Feb			717.7 578 x 39772 x 65.0 (RAE)
1973 Mar 7	1304		717.68 474 x 39875 x 65.0
1973 Mar 28	1128		717.74 509 x 39843 x 65.1
1973 Mar 31		Proton spectrometer last data
1974 May 5			717.71 1095 x 39255 x 65.2
1974 Dec 25			717.87 1212 x 39146 x 65.1
1976 Mar 19			717.79 780 x 39574 x 65.1
1977 Jul 31			677.54 110 x 38240 x 64.6
1977 Aug 19			636.65 120 x 36142 x 64.6
1977 Oct 23		Reentered

Payload:

• C-band transponder

• 1 GHz transponder

• Proton spectrometer (MGU/Kovalskaya)

• Electron spectrometer (MGU/Vakulov)