Payload
MOLNIYA 1-20
DecayedPayloadMEO
MOLNIYA 1-20 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 4, 1972 into MEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 4, 1972 at 08:38 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-1 20
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 3,655 km
- Periapsis
- 84 km
- Inclination
- 65.78°
- Orbital period
- 124.23 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-025A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5927
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 30, 1974
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 30, 1974
- Time in service
- 1.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed