Payload
MOLNIYA 1-9
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MOLNIYA 1-9 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on July 5, 1968 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 5, 1968 at 03:25 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-1 9
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,478 km
- Periapsis
- 71 km
- Inclination
- 65.19°
- Orbital period
- 100.33 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-057A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3310
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 15, 1971
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 15, 1971
- Time in service
- 2.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed