CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1992-0076
MOLNIYA 1-39
MOLNIYA 1-39 (NORAD 10696) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 9 March 1992, after 14 years in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
10696
International designator
1978-024A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
2 Mar 1978Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
9 Mar 1992UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
14 years5,121 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
61.7°N to 61.7°SFinal inclination 61.7°
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 61.7°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 61.7°N and 61.7°S.
Life in orbit
14 yearsMOLNIYA 1-39’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1978-024
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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