CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1992-0043
MOLNIYA 1-41
MOLNIYA 1-41 (NORAD 10984) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 8 February 1992, after 13 years, 6 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
10984
International designator
1978-072A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
14 Jul 1978Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
8 Feb 1992UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
13 years, 6 months4,957 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
61.8°N to 61.8°SFinal inclination 61.8°
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 61.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 61.8°N and 61.8°S.
Life in orbit
13 years, 6 monthsMOLNIYA 1-41’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 8 Feb 1992
1 entryFrom the same launch
1978-072
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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