Satellite · NORAD 19377 · COSPAR 1988-069A
MOLNIYA 1-73
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
62.62°
Period
91.8 min
91.8 min
Perigee
80km
Apogee
648km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 16 Dec 1999.· Metadata updated 13 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 16 Dec 1999 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 22.1 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- MOLNIYA 1-73Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 12 Aug 1988
- COSPAR launch id
- 1988-069
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 6
- SL-6 PLAT19379DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 DEB19424DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 DEB19438DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 DEB19449DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(1)19378Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(2)19380Rocket 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
- 19377
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1988-069A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JP7WBSBGC3ZVJV8JCRV
- Canonical slug
- molniya-1-73-19377
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.