CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1967-0309
COSMOS 137
COSMOS 137 (NORAD 2627) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 23 November 1967, after 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
2627
International designator
1966-117A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
21 Dec 1966Kapustin Yar
Re-entered (UTC)
23 Nov 1967UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
11 months337 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
48.7°N to 48.7°SFinal inclination 48.7°
Mass
237 kg
Operator
Southern SDB
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
DS-U2
Programme
DS-U2-D
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
11 monthsCOSMOS 137’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1966-117
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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