CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1972-0262
COSMOS 378
COSMOS 378 (NORAD 4713) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 17 August 1972, after 1 year, 9 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
4713
International designator
1970-097A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
17 Nov 1970Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
17 Aug 1972UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 year, 9 months639 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
73.9°N to 73.9°SFinal inclination 73.9°
Mass
281 kg
Operator
Southern SDB
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
DS-U2
Programme
DS-U2-IP
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 73.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 73.9°N and 73.9°S.
Life in orbit
1 year, 9 monthsCOSMOS 378’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1970-097
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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