Payload
MOLNIYA 1-3
DecayedPayloadMEO
MOLNIYA 1-3 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 25, 1966 into MEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 25, 1966 at 07:10 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya 8K78 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-1 3
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 4,336 km
- Periapsis
- 262 km
- Inclination
- 64.39°
- Orbital period
- 134.07 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1966-035A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2151
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 11, 1973
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 11, 1973
- Time in service
- 7.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed