CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1977-0447
MOLNIYA 1-23
MOLNIYA 1-23 (NORAD 6356) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 23 October 1977, after 4 years, 8 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
6356
International designator
1973-007A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
3 Feb 1973Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
23 Oct 1977UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
4 years, 8 months1,723 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, 8 monthsMOLNIYA 1-23’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 23 Oct 1977
1 entryFrom the same launch
1973-007
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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