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MOLNIYA 1-52

NORAD 13012 · Payload · In orbit since 1981

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Launched
1981-12-23 · Baikonur, Kazakhstan
Country / operator
CIS (Russia / CIS)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Communications
Mass
1,650 kg
Size
4.4 × 1.4 m · 8.6 m deployed
Perigee × Apogee
370 × 40,024 km
Inclination
61.7°
Period
718.3 min
Eccentricity
0.7463
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.