CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1993-0180
MOLNIYA 1-38
MOLNIYA 1-38 (NORAD 10315) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 28 September 1993, after 16 years in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
10315
International designator
1977-082A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
30 Aug 1977Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
28 Sep 1993UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
16 years5,873 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
62.7°N to 62.7°SFinal inclination 62.7°
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 62.7°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 62.7°N and 62.7°S.
Life in orbit
16 yearsMOLNIYA 1-38’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1977-082
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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