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MOLNIYA 1-50

NORAD 12556 · Payload · Reentered 1991-12-14

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Launched
1981-06-24 · 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
76 × 614 km
Inclination
63.5°
Period
91.3 min
Eccentricity
0.0401
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.