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MOLNIYA 1-3

NORAD 2151 · Payload · Reentered 1973-06-11

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Launched
1966-04-25 · 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
Orbit class
MEO
Perigee × Apogee
262 × 4,336 km
Inclination
64.4°
Period
133.9 min
Eccentricity
0.2349
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.