CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1996-0169
MOLNIYA 3-29
MOLNIYA 3-29 (NORAD 16802) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 10 November 1996, after 10 years, 4 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
16802
International designator
1986-049A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
19 Jun 1986Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
10 Nov 1996UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
10 years, 4 months3,797 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
63.6°N to 63.6°SFinal inclination 63.6°
Mass
1,750 kg
Operator
UNKS / 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 63.6°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 63.6°N and 63.6°S.
Life in orbit
10 years, 4 monthsMOLNIYA 3-29’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 10 Nov 1996
1 entryFrom the same launch
1986-049
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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