Payload
MOLNIYA 3-2
DecayedPayloadMEO
MOLNIYA 3-2 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 14, 1975 into MEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 14, 1975 at 05:52 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-3 12L
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 4,212 km
- Periapsis
- 85 km
- Inclination
- 62.03°
- Orbital period
- 130.59 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,750 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1975-029A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7738
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 30.7344 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 29, 1988
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 29, 1988
- Time in service
- 13.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed