CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1986-0204
MOLNIYA 3-1
MOLNIYA 3-1 (NORAD 7540) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 15 May 1986, after 11 years, 5 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
7540
International designator
1974-092A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
21 Nov 1974Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
15 May 1986UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
11 years, 5 months4,193 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
63.2°N to 63.2°SFinal inclination 63.2°
Mass
1,750 kg
Operator
OKB-10 / MSvyaz
Built by
OKB-10
Bus
Molniya-3
Programme
Molniya-3
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 63.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 63.2°N and 63.2°S.
Life in orbit
11 years, 5 monthsMOLNIYA 3-1’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1974-092
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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