CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1974-0029
MOLNIYA 1-8
MOLNIYA 1-8 (NORAD 3209) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 29 January 1974, after 5 years, 9 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
3209
International designator
1968-035A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
21 Apr 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
29 Jan 1974UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
5 years, 9 months2,109 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
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 64.7°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.7°N and 64.7°S.
Life in orbit
5 years, 9 monthsMOLNIYA 1-8’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 29 Jan 1974
4 entriesFrom the same launch
1968-035
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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