It is a Tundra orbit. Both are pretty clever, but the Molniya is more famous--being older and more used. Molniya is cheaper, certainly, and has the interesting

It is a Tundra orbit. Both are pretty clever, but the Molniya is more famous--being older and more used. Molniya is cheaper, certainly, and has the interesting property of dwelling over both the United States and Russia. Tundra orbit is aggressively regional, and thus has no plausible deniability about being for local use. If you're not a Cold Warrior, however, that doesn't matter much, so we'll probably see more Tundra type systems in the future. Europe would benefit from this exact system, as would the US. China perhaps, too.