CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1998-0218
MOLNIYA 1-74
MOLNIYA 1-74 (NORAD 19730) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 31 July 1998, after 9 years, 7 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
19730
International designator
1988-115A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
28 Dec 1988Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
31 Jul 1998UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
9 years, 7 months3,502 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
63.6°N to 63.6°SFinal inclination 63.6°
Mass
1,650 kg
Operator
UNKS
Built by
NPO PM
Bus
Molniya-1
Programme
Molniya-1T
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
9 years, 7 monthsMOLNIYA 1-74’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 31 Jul 1998
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1988-115
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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