Satellite · NORAD 27834 · COSPAR 2003-029A
MOLNIYA 3-53
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
63.78°
Period
89.0 min
89.0 min
Perigee
62km
Apogee
389km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 15 Jun 2013.· Metadata updated 10 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 15 Jun 2013 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 11.1 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- MOLNIYA 3-53Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 19 Jun 2003
- COSPAR launch id
- 2003-029
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 3
- SL-6 PLAT27836DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(1)27835Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(2)27837Rocket 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
- 27834
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2003-029A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQPKZYWTJYHRK309C8K
- Canonical slug
- molniya-3-53-27834
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.