CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1992-0320
MOLNIYA 1-54
MOLNIYA 1-54 (NORAD 13237) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 19 November 1992, after 10 years, 5 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
13237
International designator
1982-050A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
28 May 1982Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
19 Nov 1992UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
10 years, 5 months3,828 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
63.7°N to 63.7°SFinal inclination 63.7°
Mass
1,650 kg
Operator
GUKOS
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 63.7°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 63.7°N and 63.7°S.
Life in orbit
10 years, 5 monthsMOLNIYA 1-54’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 19 Nov 1992
1 entryFrom the same launch
1982-050
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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