CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1972-0143
COSMOS 487 DEB
COSMOS 487 DEB (NORAD 6013) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 29 April 1972.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
6013
International designator
1972-033C
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
21 Apr 1972Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
29 Apr 1972UTC calendar day
Time since launch
8 days8 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
—
Where it came down
Not on recordNo position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit is not on record.
Life in orbit
From the same launch
1972-033
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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