CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1964-0016
COSMOS 23
COSMOS 23 (NORAD 707) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 March 1964, after 3 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
707
International designator
1963-050A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
13 Dec 1963Kapustin Yar
Re-entered (UTC)
27 Mar 1964UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
3 months105 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
48.9°N to 48.9°SFinal inclination 48.9°
Mass
200 kg
Operator
VNIIEM
Built by
VNIIEM
Bus
Omega-1
Programme
Omega-1
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
3 monthsCOSMOS 23’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1963-050
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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