Payload
MOLNIYA 3-53
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 27834
MOLNIYA 3-53 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on June 19, 2003 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- June 19, 2003 at 08:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Progress Rocket Space Center
- Mission
- Molniya-3 65L
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 389 km
- Periapsis
- 62 km
- Inclination
- 63.78°
- Orbital period
- 89.01 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,780 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.4 × 4.4 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2003-029A
- NORAD catalog №
- 27834
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 11.1383 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 15, 2013
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 15, 2013
- Time in service
- 10.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed