CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1969-0012
COSMOS 185
COSMOS 185 (NORAD 3013) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 14 January 1969, after 1 year, 2 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
3013
International designator
1967-104A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
27 Oct 1967Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
14 Jan 1969UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 year, 2 months445 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
64.0°N to 64.0°SFinal inclination 64.0°
Mass
1,400 kg
Operator
PKO
Built by
TSKBM / KB-1
Bus
IS
Programme
IS 5V91
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 64.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.0°N and 64.0°S.
Life in orbit
1 year, 2 monthsCOSMOS 185’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1967-104
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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