CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1965-0397
COSMOS 42
COSMOS 42 (NORAD 864) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 19 December 1965, after 1 year, 3 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
864
International designator
1964-050A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
22 Aug 1964Kapustin Yar
Re-entered (UTC)
19 Dec 1965UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 year, 3 months484 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
48.9°N to 48.9°SFinal inclination 48.9°
Mass
50 kg
Operator
OKB-10
Built by
OKB-10
Bus
Strela-1 11F610
Programme
Strela-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
1 year, 3 monthsCOSMOS 42’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 19 Dec 1965
1 entryFrom the same launch
1964-050
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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