Payload
MOLNIYA 3-7
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MOLNIYA 3-7 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 28, 1977 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 28, 1977 at 09:10 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-3 19L
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 715 km
- Periapsis
- 71 km
- Inclination
- 61.49°
- Orbital period
- 92.42 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,750 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1977-032A
- NORAD catalog №
- 9941
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 14.5505 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 8, 2019
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 8, 2019
- Time in service
- 42.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed