Payload
MOLNIYA 1-1
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MOLNIYA 1-1 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 23, 1965 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 23, 1965 at 01:55 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya 8K78 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-1 1
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,510 km
- Periapsis
- 91 km
- Inclination
- 63.73°
- Orbital period
- 100.88 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-030A
- NORAD catalog №
- 1324
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 32.186 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 27, 1979
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 27, 1979
- Time in service
- 14.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed