CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1973-0315
MOLNIYA 1-3
MOLNIYA 1-3 (NORAD 2151) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 11 June 1973, after 7 years, 1 month in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
2151
International designator
1966-035A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
25 Apr 1966Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
11 Jun 1973UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
7 years, 1 month2,604 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
64.4°N to 64.4°SFinal inclination 64.4°
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 64.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.4°N and 64.4°S.
Life in orbit
7 years, 1 monthMOLNIYA 1-3’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1966-035
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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