CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2005-0198
MOLNIYA 1-85
MOLNIYA 1-85 (NORAD 22309) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 15 November 2005, after 12 years, 10 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
22309
International designator
1993-002A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Russia
Launched
13 Jan 1993Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
15 Nov 2005UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
12 years, 10 months4,689 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
62.0°N to 62.0°SFinal inclination 62.0°
Mass
1,670 kg
Operator
VKS
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 62.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 62.0°N and 62.0°S.
Life in orbit
12 years, 10 monthsMOLNIYA 1-85’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1993-002
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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