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MOLNIYA 1-44

NORAD 11474 · Payload · Reentered 2017-10-23

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Launched
1979-07-31 · 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
LEO (< 2,000 km)
Perigee × Apogee
124 × 219 km
Inclination
62.0°
Period
87.8 min
Eccentricity
0.0073
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.