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MOLNIYA 3-24

NORAD 15738 · Payload · In orbit since 1985

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Launched
1985-05-29 · Plesetsk, Russia
Country / operator
CIS (Russia / CIS)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Communications
Mass
1,750 kg
Size
3.6 × 1.6 m · 8.1 m deployed
Perigee × Apogee
540 × 31,887 km
Inclination
62.4°
Period
563.0 min
Eccentricity
0.6940
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.