CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1966-0497
COSMOS 70
COSMOS 70 (NORAD 1431) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 18 December 1966, after 1 year, 5 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
1431
International designator
1965-052A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
2 Jul 1965Kapustin Yar
Re-entered (UTC)
18 Dec 1966UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 year, 5 months534 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
48.7°N to 48.7°SFinal inclination 48.7°
Mass
220 kg
Operator
Southern SDB
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
DS
Programme
DS-A1
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 48.7°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 48.7°N and 48.7°S.
Life in orbit
1 year, 5 monthsCOSMOS 70’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1965-052
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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