CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1968-0015
COSMOS 61
COSMOS 61 (NORAD 1267) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 15 January 1968, after 2 years, 10 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
1267
International designator
1965-020A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
15 Mar 1965Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
15 Jan 1968UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
2 years, 10 months1,036 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
56.0°N to 56.0°SFinal inclination 56.0°
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 56.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 56.0°N and 56.0°S.
Life in orbit
2 years, 10 monthsCOSMOS 61’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 15 Jan 1968
1 entryFrom the same launch
1965-020
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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