CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2007-0102
MOLNIYA 1-78
MOLNIYA 1-78 (NORAD 20742) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 6 July 2007, after 16 years, 10 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
20742
International designator
1990-071A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
10 Aug 1990Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
6 Jul 2007UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
16 years, 10 months6,174 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
61.4°N to 61.4°SFinal inclination 61.4°
Mass
1,670 kg
Operator
UNKS
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 61.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 61.4°N and 61.4°S.
Life in orbit
16 years, 10 monthsMOLNIYA 1-78’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1990-071
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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