1) Soviet invention
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[explosive trap] Certain buried or otherwise concealed containers used by the KGB to cache items such as shortwave radio receivers and cryptographic materials were booby-trapped with an explosive device known as Molniya (`lightning`). A sequence of specific actions had to be taken in the correct order to render the device safe prior to movi...
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Molniya-2 Russian communications satellites; `Molniya” means `lightning”. All move in highly elliptical, 12-hour orbits, with perigees (low points) of no more than a few hundred kilometers and apogees (high points) of up to 40,000 km. Such orbits, that have become known as Molniya-type orbits, ...
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Molniya 1 was a Soviet communications satellite launched in April 1965 and placed in a highly elliptical orbit designed to provide the longest possible communications sessions between Moscow and Vladivostok. Molniya 1 was the first Soviet communications satellite.
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one of a series of Soviet communications satellites.
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