CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2007-0161
MOLNIYA 3-48
MOLNIYA 3-48 (NORAD 24640) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 18 October 2007, after 10 years, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
24640
International designator
1996-060A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Russia
Launched
24 Oct 1996Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
18 Oct 2007UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
10 years, 11 months4,011 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
63.3°N to 63.3°SFinal inclination 63.3°
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 63.3°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 63.3°N and 63.3°S.
Life in orbit
10 years, 11 monthsMOLNIYA 3-48’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1996-060
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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