Payload
MOLNIYA 3-8
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MOLNIYA 3-8 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 28, 1977 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 28, 1977 at 01:37 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-3 18L
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 37,981 km
- Periapsis
- 2,359 km
- Inclination
- 63.78°
- Orbital period
- 717.49 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,750 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1977-105A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10455
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 13.8448 m²
- Status
- active