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MOLNIYA 1-32

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MOLNIYA 1-32 is classified as:


NORAD ID: 8601
Int'l Code: 1976-006A
Perigee: 2,374.4 km
Apogee: 38,097.2 km
Inclination: 63.6 °
Period: 719.9 minutes
Semi major axis: 26606 km
RCS: 18.5857 m2 (large)
Launch date: January 22, 1976
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Launch site: TYURATAM MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (TTMTR)

Molniya 1/32 was a first-generation Russian communications satellite (COMSAT) orbited to test and perfect a system of radio communications and television broadcasting using earth satellites as active transponders and to experiment with the system in practical use. The basic function of the satellite was to relay television programs and long-distance two-way multichannel telephone, phototelephone, and telegraph links from Moscow to the various standard ground receiving stations in the Orbita system.
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Two Line Element Set (TLE):
1 08601U 76006A   25181.37296693 -.00000929  00000-0  00000-0 0  9997
2 08601  63.6469 170.1743 6713097 279.2128  15.9361  2.00038573 74844
Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC