Payload
MOLNIYA 1-2
DecayedPayloadHEONORAD 1621
MOLNIYA 1-2 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 14, 1965 into HEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- October 14, 1965 at 06:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya 8K78 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-1 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 39,734 km
- Periapsis
- 560 km
- Inclination
- 64.93°
- Orbital period
- 716.55 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.4 × 4.4 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-080A
- NORAD catalog №
- 1621
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 17, 1967
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 17, 1967
- Time in service
- 1.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed