CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2004-0012
MOLNIYA 3-44
MOLNIYA 3-44 (NORAD 22633) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 25 January 2004, after 10 years, 9 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
22633
International designator
1993-025A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Russia
Launched
21 Apr 1993Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
25 Jan 2004UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
10 years, 9 months3,931 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
63.4°N to 63.4°SFinal inclination 63.4°
Mass
1,750 kg
Operator
VKS / GPKS
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 63.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 63.4°N and 63.4°S.
Life in orbit
10 years, 9 monthsMOLNIYA 3-44’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 25 Jan 2004
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1993-025
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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