Payload
MOLNIYA 1-55
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MOLNIYA 1-55 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on July 21, 1982 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 21, 1982 at 09:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-1K 55
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 624 km
- Periapsis
- 67 km
- Inclination
- 63.44°
- Orbital period
- 91.45 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1982-074A
- NORAD catalog №
- 13383
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 14.3441 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 8, 1992
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 8, 1992
- Time in service
- 10.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed