MOLNIYA 1-6
NORAD 2973 · Payload · Reentered 1969-03-04
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- 1967-10-03 · 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
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 88 × 922 km
- Inclination
- 65.3°
- Period
- 94.6 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0606
- 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.