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MOLNIYA 3-40

NORAD 21196 · Payload · In orbit since 1991

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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
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.