Payload
MOLNIYA 1-76
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 20255
MOLNIYA 1-76 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on September 27, 1989 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- September 27, 1989 at 02:38 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-1T 76
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 391 km
- Periapsis
- 81 km
- Inclination
- 63.21°
- Orbital period
- 89.22 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.4 × 4.4 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1989-078A
- NORAD catalog №
- 20255
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 21.0062 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 11, 2000
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 11, 2000
- Time in service
- 11.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed