CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1966-0161
POLYOT 2
POLYOT 2 (NORAD 784) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 8 June 1966, after 2 years, 1 month in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
784
International designator
1964-019A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
12 Apr 1964Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
8 Jun 1966UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
2 years, 1 month787 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
58.0°N to 58.0°SFinal inclination 58.0°
Mass
2,250 kg
Operator
OKB-52
Built by
OKB-52 / KB-1
Bus
I-2B
Programme
IS Polyot
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 58.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 58.0°N and 58.0°S.
Life in orbit
2 years, 1 monthPOLYOT 2’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1964-019
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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