CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1963-0017
COSMOS 5 (SPUTNIK 15)
COSMOS 5 (SPUTNIK 15) (NORAD 297) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 2 May 1963, after 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
297
International designator
1962-020A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
28 May 1962Kapustin Yar
Re-entered (UTC)
2 May 1963UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
11 months339 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
49.0°N to 49.0°SFinal inclination 49.0°
Mass
252 kg
Operator
OKB-1
Built by
OKB-1
Bus
MS
Programme
MS
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 49.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 49.0°N and 49.0°S.
Life in orbit
11 monthsCOSMOS 5 (SPUTNIK 15)’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1962-020
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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