Payload
MOLNIYA 1-21
DecayedPayloadHEO
MOLNIYA 1-21 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 14, 1972 into HEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 14, 1972 at 06:16 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-1 21
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 39,953 km
- Periapsis
- 131 km
- Inclination
- 64.23°
- Orbital period
- 712.29 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-081A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6231
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 2 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 1, 1977
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 1, 1977
- Time in service
- 5.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed