CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1984-0520
MOLNIYA 2-8
MOLNIYA 2-8 (NORAD 7000) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 24 November 1984, after 10 years, 10 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
7000
International designator
1973-106A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
25 Dec 1973Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
24 Nov 1984UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
10 years, 10 months3,987 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
63.4°N to 63.4°SFinal inclination 63.4°
Mass
1,650 kg
Operator
GUKOS RVSN
Built by
OKB-10
Bus
Molniya-2
Programme
Molniya-2
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 63.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 63.4°N and 63.4°S.
Life in orbit
10 years, 10 monthsMOLNIYA 2-8’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1973-106
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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