We report on the extended 2014–17 observing campaignof the 43 surviving Soviet/Russian spacecraftMolniya, carried out at Mexican and Italian telescopes. Spectrophotometry andastrodynamicalanalysishave been carried outfor all the dead payloads now in uncontrolled HEOorbit, in order to assess thepossible differential age effect on the dynamical and reflectance properties of such a wide family of virtually identical orbiting objects, under the influence of Sun’s radiation and gravitational and geomagnetic perturbation.

Toward a Physical Characterization of the Soviet/Russian Constellationof Molniya Satellites

Giacomo Tommei
2019-01-01

Abstract

We report on the extended 2014–17 observing campaignof the 43 surviving Soviet/Russian spacecraftMolniya, carried out at Mexican and Italian telescopes. Spectrophotometry andastrodynamicalanalysishave been carried outfor all the dead payloads now in uncontrolled HEOorbit, in order to assess thepossible differential age effect on the dynamical and reflectance properties of such a wide family of virtually identical orbiting objects, under the influence of Sun’s radiation and gravitational and geomagnetic perturbation.
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