Satellite · NORAD 13875 · COSPAR 1983-015A
MOLNIYA 3-20
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
62.01°
Period
12.0 h
717.7 min
Perigee
1,234km
Apogee
39,117km
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
- 15.4 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- MOLNIYA 3-20Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 11 Mar 1983
- COSPAR launch id
- 1983-015
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 4
- SL-6 PLAT13877DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 DEB13881DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(1)13876Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(2)13882Rocket 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
- 13875
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1983-015A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JN9QNTC8ZZV1MM5G9FE
- Canonical slug
- molniya-3-20-13875
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.