Payload
MOLNIYA 1-79
DecayedPayloadLEO
MOLNIYA 1-79 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on November 23, 1990 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 23, 1990 at 03:51 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-1T 79
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 340 km
- Periapsis
- 57 km
- Inclination
- 62.39°
- Orbital period
- 88.47 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1990-101A
- NORAD catalog №
- 20949
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 3.1622 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 30, 2005
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 30, 2005
- Time in service
- 14.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed