CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2004-0152
MOLNIYA 1-82
MOLNIYA 1-82 (NORAD 21630) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 9 October 2004, after 13 years, 2 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
21630
International designator
1991-053A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
1 Aug 1991Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
9 Oct 2004UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
13 years, 2 months4,818 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
61.7°N to 61.7°SFinal inclination 61.7°
Mass
1,670 kg
Operator
UNKS RF
Built by
NPO PM
Bus
Molniya-1T
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 61.7°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 61.7°N and 61.7°S.
Life in orbit
13 years, 2 monthsMOLNIYA 1-82’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 9 Oct 2004
1 entryFrom the same launch
1991-053
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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