CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2017-0166
MOLNIYA 1-44
MOLNIYA 1-44 (NORAD 11474) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 23 October 2017, after 38 years, 2 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
11474
International designator
1979-070A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
31 Jul 1979Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
23 Oct 2017UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
38 years, 2 months13,964 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
62.0°N to 62.0°SFinal inclination 62.0°
Mass
1,650 kg
Operator
GUKOS RVSN
Built by
NPO PM
Bus
Molniya-1
Programme
Molniya-1K
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
38 years, 2 monthsMOLNIYA 1-44’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1979-070
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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