CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2000-0064
MOLNIYA 1-64
MOLNIYA 1-64 (NORAD 15977) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 22 March 2000, after 14 years, 7 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
15977
International designator
1985-074A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
22 Aug 1985Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
22 Mar 2000UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
14 years, 7 months5,326 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
61.9°N to 61.9°SFinal inclination 61.9°
Mass
1,650 kg
Operator
GUKOS
Built by
NPO PM
Bus
Molniya-1
Programme
Molniya-1K
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
14 years, 7 monthsMOLNIYA 1-64’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 22 Mar 2000
1 entryFrom the same launch
1985-074
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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