CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1969-0193
COSMOS 262
COSMOS 262 (NORAD 3629) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 18 July 1969, after 6 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
3629
International designator
1968-119A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
26 Dec 1968Kapustin Yar
Re-entered (UTC)
18 Jul 1969UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
6 months204 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
48.4°N to 48.4°SFinal inclination 48.4°
Mass
283 kg
Operator
Southern SDB
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
DS-U2
Programme
DS-U2-GF
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
6 monthsCOSMOS 262’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1968-119
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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