Payload
MOLNIYA 1-43
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MOLNIYA 1-43 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 12, 1979 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 12, 1979 at 12:28 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-1K 43
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,462 km
- Periapsis
- 100 km
- Inclination
- 63.68°
- Orbital period
- 100.48 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1979-031A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11328
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 1.26 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 9, 1989
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 9, 1989
- Time in service
- 10.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed