CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1969-0055
COSMOS 219
COSMOS 219 (NORAD 3220) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 2 March 1969, after 10 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
3220
International designator
1968-038A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
26 Apr 1968Kapustin Yar
Re-entered (UTC)
2 Mar 1969UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
10 months310 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
48.4°N to 48.4°SFinal inclination 48.4°
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 48.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 48.4°N and 48.4°S.
Life in orbit
10 monthsCOSMOS 219’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 2 Mar 1969
1 entryFrom the same launch
1968-038
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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