CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2000-0019
MOLNIYA 1-57
MOLNIYA 1-57 (NORAD 13964) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 26 January 2000, after 16 years, 9 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
13964
International designator
1983-025A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
2 Apr 1983Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
26 Jan 2000UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
16 years, 9 months6,143 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
GUKOS
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
16 years, 9 monthsMOLNIYA 1-57’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1983-025
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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