Payload
MOLNIYA 2-8
DecayedPayloadMEO
MOLNIYA 2-8 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on December 25, 1973 into MEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 25, 1973 at 11:17 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-2 8
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 2,243 km
- Periapsis
- 87 km
- Inclination
- 63.45°
- Orbital period
- 108.67 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,650 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1973-106A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7000
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 20.292 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 24, 1984
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 24, 1984
- Time in service
- 10.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed