CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1976-0199
MOLNIYA 1-10
MOLNIYA 1-10 (NORAD 3469) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 11 July 1976, after 7 years, 9 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
3469
International designator
1968-085A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
5 Oct 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
11 Jul 1976UTC calendar dayAlso recorded as 16 Jul 1976
Time in orbit
7 years, 9 months2,836 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
64.2°N to 64.2°SFinal inclination 64.2°
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 64.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.2°N and 64.2°S.
Life in orbit
7 years, 9 monthsMOLNIYA 1-10’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1968-085
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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