CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1973-0492
COSMOS 497
COSMOS 497 (NORAD 6076) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 7 November 1973, after 1 year, 4 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
6076
International designator
1972-048A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
30 Jun 1972Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
7 Nov 1973UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 year, 4 months495 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
70.9°N to 70.9°SFinal inclination 70.9°
Mass
200 kg
Operator
PVO
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
DS-P1
Programme
DS-P1-I
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 70.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 70.9°N and 70.9°S.
Life in orbit
1 year, 4 monthsCOSMOS 497’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1972-048
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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