CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1985-0145
MOLNIYA 1-26
MOLNIYA 1-26 (NORAD 6958) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 9 June 1985, after 11 years, 6 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
6958
International designator
1973-097A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
30 Nov 1973Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
9 Jun 1985UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
11 years, 6 months4,209 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
63.3°N to 63.3°SFinal inclination 63.3°
Mass
1,650 kg
Operator
GUKOS RVSN
Built by
OKB-10
Bus
Molniya-1
Programme
Molniya-1K
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 63.3°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 63.3°N and 63.3°S.
Life in orbit
11 years, 6 monthsMOLNIYA 1-26’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 9 Jun 1985
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1973-097
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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