CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1998-0354
MOLNIYA 3-11
MOLNIYA 3-11 (NORAD 11240) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 2 December 1998, after 19 years, 10 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
11240
International designator
1979-004A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
18 Jan 1979Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
2 Dec 1998UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
19 years, 10 months7,258 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
61.9°N to 61.9°SFinal inclination 61.9°
Mass
1,750 kg
Operator
NPO PM / 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 61.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 61.9°N and 61.9°S.
Life in orbit
19 years, 10 monthsMOLNIYA 3-11’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 2 Dec 1998
1 entryFrom the same launch
1979-004
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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