Payload
MOLNIYA 3-42
activePayloadHEONORAD 22178
MOLNIYA 3-42 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 14, 1992 into HEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- October 14, 1992 at 07:58 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya 8K78M-PVB →
- Operator
- Progress Rocket Space Center
- Mission
- Molniya-3 50L
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,978 km
- Periapsis
- 1,145 km
- Inclination
- 64.38°
- Orbital period
- 653.26 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,750 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.6 × 3.6 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1992-067A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22178
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 14.6753 m²
- Status
- active