Payload
MOLNIYA 3-40
activePayloadGEONORAD 21196
MOLNIYA 3-40 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on March 22, 1991 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- March 22, 1991 at 12:19 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-3 55L
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,899 km
- Periapsis
- 3,038 km
- Inclination
- 64.71°
- Orbital period
- 709.34 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,750 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.6 × 3.6 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1991-022A
- NORAD catalog №
- 21196
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 13.4176 m²
- Status
- active