CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1971-0286
MOLNIYA 1-5
MOLNIYA 1-5 (NORAD 2822) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 26 November 1971, after 4 years, 6 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
2822
International designator
1967-052A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
24 May 1967Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
26 Nov 1971UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
4 years, 6 months1,647 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
64.7°N to 64.7°SFinal inclination 64.7°
Mass
1,650 kg
Operator
OKB-10
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 64.7°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.7°N and 64.7°S.
Life in orbit
4 years, 6 monthsMOLNIYA 1-5’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 26 Nov 1971
1 entryFrom the same launch
1967-052
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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