Payload
MOLNIYA 3-16
DecayedPayloadLEO
MOLNIYA 3-16 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on June 9, 1981 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 9, 1981 at 03:33 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-3 30L
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 339 km
- Periapsis
- 71 km
- Inclination
- 62.14°
- Orbital period
- 88.6 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,750 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-054A
- NORAD catalog №
- 12512
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 15.4743 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 10, 1998
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 10, 1998
- Time in service
- 16.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed