Payload
MOLNIYA 1-23
DecayedPayloadHEO
MOLNIYA 1-23 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on February 3, 1973 into HEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 3, 1973 at 05:48 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-1 23
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,152 km
- Periapsis
- 121 km
- Inclination
- 64.57°
- Orbital period
- 636.65 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1973-007A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6356
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 21.9094 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 23, 1977
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 23, 1977
- Time in service
- 4.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed