CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1990-0079
MOLNIYA 3-5
MOLNIYA 3-5 (NORAD 8833) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 4 February 1990, after 13 years, 8 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
8833
International designator
1976-041A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
12 May 1976Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
4 Feb 1990UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
13 years, 8 months5,016 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
62.0°N to 62.0°SFinal inclination 62.0°
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 62.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 62.0°N and 62.0°S.
Life in orbit
13 years, 8 monthsMOLNIYA 3-5’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1976-041
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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