Payload
MOLNIYA 3-23
DecayedPayloadMEO
MOLNIYA 3-23 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on January 16, 1985 into MEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 16, 1985 at 06:22 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-3 36L
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 3,267 km
- Periapsis
- 88 km
- Inclination
- 63.95°
- Orbital period
- 119.92 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,750 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1985-004A
- NORAD catalog №
- 15476
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 4.4981 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 5, 1994
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 5, 1994
- Time in service
- 9.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed