Payload
MOLNIYA 2-1
DecayedPayloadHEO
MOLNIYA 2-1 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on November 24, 1971 into HEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 24, 1971 at 09:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-2 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 40,102 km
- Periapsis
- 181 km
- Inclination
- 65.48°
- Orbital period
- 716.33 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-100A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5620
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 10, 1976
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 10, 1976
- Time in service
- 4.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed