CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1971-0209
MOLNIYA 1-5 DEB
MOLNIYA 1-5 DEB (NORAD 5439) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 1 September 1971.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
5439
International designator
1967-052G
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
24 May 1967Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
1 Sep 1971UTC calendar day
Time since launch
4 years, 3 months1,561 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
65.1°N to 65.1°SFinal inclination 65.1°
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 65.1°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 65.1°N and 65.1°S.
Life in orbit
MOLNIYA 1-5 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1967-052
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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