CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2003-0106
MOLNIYA 3-37
MOLNIYA 3-37 (NORAD 20444) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 23 June 2003, after 13 years, 5 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
20444
International designator
1990-006A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
23 Jan 1990Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
23 Jun 2003UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
13 years, 5 months4,899 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
61.6°N to 61.6°SFinal inclination 61.6°
Mass
1,750 kg
Operator
UNKS / MSvyaz
Built by
NPO PM
Bus
Molniya-3
Programme
Molniya-3
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 61.6°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 61.6°N and 61.6°S.
Life in orbit
13 years, 5 monthsMOLNIYA 3-37’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1990-006
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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