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MOLNIYA 1-49

NORAD 12156 · Payload · Reentered 2024-03-12

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Launched
1981-01-30 · 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
MEO
Perigee × Apogee
190 × 4,330 km
Inclination
61.8°
Period
133.0 min
Eccentricity
0.2398
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.