CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1969-0334
MOLNIYA 1-7
MOLNIYA 1-7 (NORAD 3008) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 31 December 1969, after 2 years, 2 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
3008
International designator
1967-101A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
22 Oct 1967Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
31 Dec 1969UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
2 years, 2 months801 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
64.8°N to 64.8°SFinal inclination 64.8°
Mass
1,650 kg
Operator
TsUKOS
Built by
OKB-10
Bus
Molniya-1
Programme
Molniya-1
Where it came down
Latitude band its orbit allowedExact position not recorded
No position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit, inclined at 64.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.8°N and 64.8°S.
Life in orbit
2 years, 2 monthsMOLNIYA 1-7’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1967-101
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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