CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1992-0242
MOLNIYA 3-12
MOLNIYA 3-12 (NORAD 11384) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 26 September 1992, after 13 years, 3 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
11384
International designator
1979-048A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
5 Jun 1979Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
26 Sep 1992UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
13 years, 3 months4,862 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
62.9°N to 62.9°SFinal inclination 62.9°
Mass
1,750 kg
Operator
NPO PM / MSvyaz
Built by
NPO PM
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 62.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 62.9°N and 62.9°S.
Life in orbit
13 years, 3 monthsMOLNIYA 3-12’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 26 Sep 1992
1 entryFrom the same launch
1979-048
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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