MOLNIYA 3-9
NORAD 10605 · Payload · Reentered 1989-12-05
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1978-01-24 · Plesetsk, Russia
- Country / operator
- CIS (Russia / CIS)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 1,750 kg
- Size
- 3.6 × 1.6 m · 8.1 m deployed
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 90 × 1,419 km
- Inclination
- 63.1°
- Period
- 99.8 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0933
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).
Same launch
Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.