CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2001-0319
MOLNIYA 1-59
MOLNIYA 1-59 (NORAD 14516) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 30 October 2001, after 17 years, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
14516
International designator
1983-114A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
23 Nov 1983Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
30 Oct 2001UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
17 years, 11 months6,551 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
62.5°N to 62.5°SFinal inclination 62.5°
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 62.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 62.5°N and 62.5°S.
Life in orbit
17 years, 11 monthsMOLNIYA 1-59’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 30 Oct 2001
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1983-114
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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