CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1985-0456
MOLNIYA 1-28
MOLNIYA 1-28 (NORAD 7480) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 29 December 1985, after 11 years, 2 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
7480
International designator
1974-081A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
24 Oct 1974Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
29 Dec 1985UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
11 years, 2 months4,084 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
—
Mass
1,650 kg
Operator
GUKOS RVSN
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
11 years, 2 monthsMOLNIYA 1-28’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1974-081
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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