CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1975-0370
MOLNIYA 1-13
MOLNIYA 1-13 (NORAD 4336) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 29 September 1975, after 5 years, 7 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
4336
International designator
1970-013A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
19 Feb 1970Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
29 Sep 1975UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
5 years, 7 months2,048 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
65.4°N to 65.4°SFinal inclination 65.4°
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 65.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 65.4°N and 65.4°S.
Life in orbit
5 years, 7 monthsMOLNIYA 1-13’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 29 Sep 1975
1 entryFrom the same launch
1970-013
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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