Space AtlasMOLNIYA 1-21
NORAD 6231 · Payload · Reentered 1977-11-01
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- 1972-10-14 · Plesetsk, Russia
- 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
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee × Apogee
- 131 × 39,953 km
- Inclination
- 64.2°
- Period
- 712.0 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.7538
- 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.