CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2019-0218
MOLNIYA 3-7
MOLNIYA 3-7 (NORAD 9941) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 8 August 2019 over the South Atlantic Ocean, after 42 years, 3 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
9941
International designator
1977-032A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
28 Apr 1977Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
8 Aug 2019Recorded time 03:15 UTC
Time in orbit
42 years, 3 months15,442 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
61.5°N to 61.5°SFinal inclination 61.5°
Mass
1,750 kg
Operator
NPO PM / MSvyaz
Built by
NPO PM
Bus
Molniya-3
Programme
Molniya-3
Where it came down
Recorded positionRecorded position 58.0°S, 68.0°W at 03:15 UTC. Its final orbit, inclined at 61.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 61.5°N and 61.5°S.
Life in orbit
42 years, 3 monthsMOLNIYA 3-7’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1977-032
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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