Payload
MOLNIYA 2-15
DecayedPayloadLEO
MOLNIYA 2-15 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on December 17, 1975 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 17, 1975 at 11:06 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-2 15
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,494 km
- Periapsis
- 73 km
- Inclination
- 62.83°
- Orbital period
- 100.53 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1975-121A
- NORAD catalog №
- 8492
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 15.5949 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 28, 1990
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 28, 1990
- Time in service
- 14.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed