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MOLNIYA 3-1

NORAD 7540 · Payload · Reentered 1986-05-15

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Launched
1974-11-21 · 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
LEO (< 2,000 km)
Perigee × Apogee
86 × 776 km
Inclination
63.2°
Period
93.0 min
Eccentricity
0.0507
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.