CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1974-0034
MOLNIYA 1-20
MOLNIYA 1-20 (NORAD 5927) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 30 January 1974, after 1 year, 9 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
5927
International designator
1972-025A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
4 Apr 1972Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
30 Jan 1974UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 year, 9 months666 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
65.8°N to 65.8°SFinal inclination 65.8°
Mass
1,650 kg
Operator
GUKOS RVSN
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 65.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 65.8°N and 65.8°S.
Life in orbit
1 year, 9 monthsMOLNIYA 1-20’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1972-025
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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