Satellite · NORAD 18946 · COSPAR 1988-017A
MOLNIYA 1-71
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
62.02°
Period
12.0 h
717.0 min
Perigee
860km
Apogee
39,458km
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
- 20.2 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- MOLNIYA 1-71Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 11 Mar 1988
- COSPAR launch id
- 1988-017
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 3
- SL-6 PLAT18948DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(1)18947Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(2)18949Rocket 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
- 18946
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1988-017A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JP5YR60YP1V514XEVXF
- Canonical slug
- molniya-1-71-18946
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.