Payload
MOLNIYA 3-44
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 22633
MOLNIYA 3-44 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 21, 1993 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- April 21, 1993 at 12:23 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Progress Rocket Space Center
- Mission
- Molniya-3 57L
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 636 km
- Periapsis
- 89 km
- Inclination
- 63.44°
- Orbital period
- 91.79 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,750 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.6 × 3.6 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1993-025A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22633
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 9.8529 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 25, 2004
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 25, 2004
- Time in service
- 10.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed