CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1988-0414
MOLNIYA 2-11
MOLNIYA 2-11 (NORAD 7583) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 7 July 1988, after 13 years, 6 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
7583
International designator
1974-102A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
21 Dec 1974Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
7 Jul 1988UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
13 years, 6 months4,947 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
13 years, 6 monthsMOLNIYA 2-11’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 7 Jul 1988
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1974-102
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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