CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1994-0179
MOLNIYA 3-23 DEB
MOLNIYA 3-23 DEB (NORAD 23006) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 13 December 1994.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
23006
International designator
1985-004E
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
16 Jan 1985Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
13 Dec 1994UTC calendar dayAlso recorded as 11 Dec 1994
Time since launch
9 years, 10 months3,618 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
63.8°N to 63.8°SFinal inclination 63.8°
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 63.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 63.8°N and 63.8°S.
Life in orbit
MOLNIYA 3-23 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1985-004
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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