CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1963-0052
COSMOS 2 (SPUTNIK 12)
COSMOS 2 (SPUTNIK 12) (NORAD 269) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 23 August 1963, after 1 year, 4 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
269
International designator
1962-009A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
6 Apr 1962Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
23 Aug 1963UTC calendar dayAlso recorded as 20 Aug 1963
Time in orbit
1 year, 4 months504 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
48.9°N to 48.9°SFinal inclination 48.9°
Mass
224 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 48.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 48.9°N and 48.9°S.
Life in orbit
1 year, 4 monthsCOSMOS 2 (SPUTNIK 12)’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1962-009
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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