CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1976-0075
MOLNIYA 1-15
MOLNIYA 1-15 (NORAD 4569) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 20 March 1976, after 5 years, 5 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
4569
International designator
1970-077A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
29 Sep 1970Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
20 Mar 1976UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
5 years, 5 months1,999 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
64.3°N to 64.3°SFinal inclination 64.3°
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 64.3°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.3°N and 64.3°S.
Life in orbit
5 years, 5 monthsMOLNIYA 1-15’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1970-077
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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