CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2000-0164
MOLNIYA 1-68
MOLNIYA 1-68 (NORAD 16934) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 20 June 2000, after 13 years, 9 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
16934
International designator
1986-068A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
5 Sep 1986Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
20 Jun 2000UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
13 years, 9 months5,037 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
61.8°N to 61.8°SFinal inclination 61.8°
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 61.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 61.8°N and 61.8°S.
Life in orbit
13 years, 9 monthsMOLNIYA 1-68’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1986-068
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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