MOLNIYA 3-40
NORAD 21196 · Payload · In orbit since 1991
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1991-03-22 · 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
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee × Apogee
- 3,008 × 36,930 km
- Inclination
- 64.7°
- Period
- 709.1 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.6439
- 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.