Payload
MOLNIYA 2-6
DecayedPayloadMEO
MOLNIYA 2-6 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on July 11, 1973 into MEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 11, 1973 at 09:58 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-2 6
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 4,146 km
- Periapsis
- 93 km
- Inclination
- 64.81°
- Orbital period
- 129.93 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1973-045A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6722
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 10.8221 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 5, 1978
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 5, 1978
- Time in service
- 5.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed