Payload
MOLNIYA 1-15
DecayedPayloadMEO
MOLNIYA 1-15 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on September 29, 1970 into MEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 29, 1970 at 08:14 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-1 15
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 3,502 km
- Periapsis
- 113 km
- Inclination
- 64.21°
- Orbital period
- 122.84 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1970-077A
- NORAD catalog №
- 4569
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 20, 1976
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 20, 1976
- Time in service
- 5.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed