CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1979-0224
MOLNIYA 1-1
MOLNIYA 1-1 (NORAD 1324) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 May 1979, after 14 years, 1 month in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
1324
International designator
1965-030A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
23 Apr 1965Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
27 May 1979UTC calendar dayAlso recorded as 16 Aug 1979
Time in orbit
14 years, 1 month5,147 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
—
Mass
1,650 kg
Operator
OKB-10
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
14 years, 1 monthMOLNIYA 1-1’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 27 May 1979
1 entryFrom the same launch
1965-030
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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