CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1979-0011
MOLNIYA 2-5
MOLNIYA 2-5 (NORAD 6418) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 6 January 1979, after 5 years, 9 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
6418
International designator
1973-018A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
5 Apr 1973Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
6 Jan 1979UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
5 years, 9 months2,102 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
—
Mass
1,650 kg
Operator
GUKOS RVSN
Built by
OKB-10
Bus
Molniya-2
Programme
Molniya-2
Where it came down
Not on recordNo position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit is not on record.
Life in orbit
5 years, 9 monthsMOLNIYA 2-5’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1973-018
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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