Satellite · NORAD 6932 · COSPAR 1973-089A
MOLNIYA 1-25
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
64.71°
Period
11.9 h
712.2 min
Perigee
148km
Apogee
39,929km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 05 Jun 1979.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 05 Jun 1979 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 18.3 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- MOLNIYA 1-25Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 14 Nov 1973
- COSPAR launch id
- 1973-089
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 4
- SL-6 DEB6934DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 PLAT6935DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(1)6933Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(2)6940Rocket bodyDecayed
Change log
History
No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.
Regulatory
UN registration
Transparency
Sources & provenance
No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.
Field provenance
No field-level provenance recorded.
Timeline
Events
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 6932
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1973-089A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKGVMRV49E6X6GC90AJ
- Canonical slug
- molniya-1-25-6932
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Unknown) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.