CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1999-0332
MOLNIYA 3-30
MOLNIYA 3-30 (NORAD 17038) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 15 October 1999, after 12 years, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
17038
International designator
1986-079A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
20 Oct 1986Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
15 Oct 1999UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
12 years, 11 months4,743 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
62.1°N to 62.1°SFinal inclination 62.1°
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 62.1°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 62.1°N and 62.1°S.
Life in orbit
12 years, 11 monthsMOLNIYA 3-30’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1986-079
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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