Payload
MOLNIYA 1-46
DecayedPayloadLEO
MOLNIYA 1-46 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on January 11, 1980 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 11, 1980 at 12:28 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-1K 46
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 743 km
- Periapsis
- 81 km
- Inclination
- 63.06°
- Orbital period
- 92.81 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1980-002A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11662
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 28.9883 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 22, 1992
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 22, 1992
- Time in service
- 12.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed