CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1973-0460
INTERCOSMOS 9
INTERCOSMOS 9 (NORAD 6433) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 15 October 1973, after 5 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
6433
International designator
1973-022A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
19 Apr 1973Kapustin Yar
Re-entered (UTC)
15 Oct 1973UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
5 months179 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
48.4°N to 48.4°SFinal inclination 48.4°
Mass
256 kg
Operator
IK
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
DS-U2
Programme
DS-U2-IK
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
5 monthsINTERCOSMOS 9’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1973-022
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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