Payload
MOLNIYA 3-51
DecayedPayloadLEO
MOLNIYA 3-51 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on July 20, 2001 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 20, 2001 at 12:17 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Progress Rocket Space Center
- Mission
- Molniya-3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 634 km
- Periapsis
- 78 km
- Inclination
- 62.39°
- Orbital period
- 91.66 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,780 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2001-030A
- NORAD catalog №
- 26867
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 12.0254 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 19, 2016
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 19, 2016
- Time in service
- 15.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed