CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1983-0260
MOLNIYA 2-7
MOLNIYA 2-7 (NORAD 6877) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 8 July 1983, after 9 years, 8 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
6877
International designator
1973-076A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
19 Oct 1973Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
8 Jul 1983UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
9 years, 8 months3,549 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
9 years, 8 monthsMOLNIYA 2-7’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1973-076
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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