MOLNIYA 1-40
NORAD 10925 · Payload · In orbit since 1978
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1978-06-02 · Plesetsk, Russia
- Country / operator
- CIS (Russia / CIS)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 1,650 kg
- Size
- 4.4 × 1.4 m · 8.6 m deployed
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee × Apogee
- 2,292 × 38,047 km
- Inclination
- 64.0°
- Period
- 717.2 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.6736
- 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.