CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1975-0448
MOLNIYA 1-16
MOLNIYA 1-16 (NORAD 4779) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 25 November 1975, after 4 years, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
4779
International designator
1970-101A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
27 Nov 1970Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
25 Nov 1975UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
4 years, 11 months1,824 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
—
Mass
1,650 kg
Operator
GUKOS RVSN
Built by
OKB-10
Bus
Molniya-1
Programme
Molniya-1
Where it came down
Not on recordNo position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit is not on record.
Life in orbit
4 years, 11 monthsMOLNIYA 1-16’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1970-101
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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