Payload
MOLNIYA 3-52
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 26970
MOLNIYA 3-52 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 25, 2001 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- October 25, 2001 at 11:34 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Progress Rocket Space Center
- Mission
- Molniya-3 64L
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 316 km
- Periapsis
- 67 km
- Inclination
- 63.8°
- Orbital period
- 88.33 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,780 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.4 × 4.4 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2001-050A
- NORAD catalog №
- 26970
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 8.0511 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 6, 2011
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 6, 2011
- Time in service
- 10.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed