CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1992-0284
MOLNIYA 1-46
MOLNIYA 1-46 (NORAD 11662) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 22 October 1992, after 12 years, 9 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
11662
International designator
1980-002A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
11 Jan 1980Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
22 Oct 1992UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
12 years, 9 months4,668 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
63.1°N to 63.1°SFinal inclination 63.1°
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 63.1°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 63.1°N and 63.1°S.
Life in orbit
12 years, 9 monthsMOLNIYA 1-46’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 22 Oct 1992
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1980-002
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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