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Entry no.
1999-0416
MOLNIYA 1-73
MOLNIYA 1-73 (NORAD 19377) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 16 December 1999, after 11 years, 4 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
19377
International designator
1988-069A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
12 Aug 1988Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
16 Dec 1999UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
11 years, 4 months4,143 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
62.6°N to 62.6°SFinal inclination 62.6°
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 62.6°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 62.6°N and 62.6°S.
Life in orbit
11 years, 4 monthsMOLNIYA 1-73’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1988-069
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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