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NORAD ID: 8015
Int'l Code: 1975-063A
Perigee: 595.3 km
Apogee: 39,705.5 km
Inclination: 63.4 °
Period: 716.4 minutes
Semi major axis: 26521 km
Launch date: July 8, 1975
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Comments: Molniya 2/13 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.
Two Line Element Set (TLE):
1 08015U 75063A 13144.76393457 .00000579 00000-0 00000+0 0 230
2 08015 063.3674 010.4805 7373337 248.6927 061.5947 02.01005821277573
Source: AFSPC
NASA's NSSDC Master Catalog entry for MOLNIYA 2-13
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