Payload
MOLNIYA 1-78
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 20742
MOLNIYA 1-78 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on August 10, 1990 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- August 10, 1990 at 08:18 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-1T 78
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 421 km
- Periapsis
- 85 km
- Inclination
- 61.35°
- Orbital period
- 89.56 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.4 × 4.4 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1990-071A
- NORAD catalog №
- 20742
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 17.496 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 6, 2007
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 6, 2007
- Time in service
- 16.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed