Payload
MOLNIYA 1-28
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MOLNIYA 1-28 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 24, 1974 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 24, 1974 at 12:38 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-1 28
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 658 km
- Periapsis
- 95 km
- Inclination
- 63.29°
- Orbital period
- 92.08 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1974-081A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7480
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 30.06 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 29, 1985
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 29, 1985
- Time in service
- 11.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed