CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1989-1017
MOLNIYA 1-43
MOLNIYA 1-43 (NORAD 11328) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 9 December 1989, after 10 years, 7 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
11328
International designator
1979-031A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
12 Apr 1979Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
9 Dec 1989UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
10 years, 7 months3,894 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
63.7°N to 63.7°SFinal inclination 63.7°
Mass
1,650 kg
Operator
GUKOS RVSN
Built by
NPO PM
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 63.7°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 63.7°N and 63.7°S.
Life in orbit
10 years, 7 monthsMOLNIYA 1-43’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 9 Dec 1989
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1979-031
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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