Satellite · NORAD 21706 · COSPAR 1991-065A
MOLNIYA 3-41
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
62.62°
Period
11.7 h
704.1 min
Perigee
389km
Apogee
39,289km
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
- 14.8 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- MOLNIYA 3-41Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 17 Sept 1991
- COSPAR launch id
- 1991-065
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 7
- SL-6 PLAT21708DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 DEB21710DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 DEB21718DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 DEB21719DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 DEB21720DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(1)21707Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(2)21709Rocket 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
- 21706
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1991-065A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JPMVTQKJ42K3VE70XQT
- Canonical slug
- molniya-3-41-21706
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.