CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1992-0277
MOLNIYA 3-15
MOLNIYA 3-15 (NORAD 12368) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 19 October 1992, after 11 years, 6 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
12368
International designator
1981-030A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
24 Mar 1981Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
19 Oct 1992UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
11 years, 6 months4,227 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
63.4°N to 63.4°SFinal inclination 63.4°
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 63.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 63.4°N and 63.4°S.
Life in orbit
11 years, 6 monthsMOLNIYA 3-15’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 19 Oct 1992
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1981-030
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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