Saturday, January 9, 1982

Molniya 107

  1966-092A


Molniya-1 No. 7 was the last OKB-1 built Molniya and the first to achieve a stabilized 12-hour period ground track, in Nov 1966. Improvements to the solar panels made it longer lived, operating for more than a year.


Molniya-1 7 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1966 Oct 20  0750 Launch by 8K78M  KB 
 0754?  Blok-I 
 0759? Blok-I MECO 
 0850?  BOZ burn 
 0851?  Blok L burn 
 0855? Blok L sep 
1966 Nov 8    713.23 454 x 39675 x 64.6 
1966 Nov   Ground track stabilized 
1966 Dec 1    718.12 464 x 39907 x 64.7 
1967 Jan 27    717.87 480 x 39878 x 64.8 
1968 Jan 29  End of ops 
1968 Jul 3    712.48 181 x 39911 x 65.0 
1968 Sep 11   Reentered 

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