Satellite · NORAD 13012 · COSPAR 1981-123A
MOLNIYA 1-52
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
61.75°
Period
12.0 h
718.5 min
Perigee
341km
Apogee
40,051km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- Radar cross-section
- 16.8 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- MOLNIYA 1-52Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 23 Dec 1981
- COSPAR launch id
- 1981-123
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 4
- SL-6 PLAT13014DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 DEB48265DebrisInactive
- SL-6 R/B(1)13013Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(2)13016Rocket bodyInactive
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
- 13012
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1981-123A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JN4BPQYTFEK4965Z503
- Canonical slug
- molniya-1-52-13012
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.