CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1974-0118
COSMOS 501
COSMOS 501 (NORAD 6099) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 9 May 1974, after 1 year, 9 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
6099
International designator
1972-054A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
12 Jul 1972Kapustin Yar
Re-entered (UTC)
9 May 1974UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 year, 9 months666 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
48.4°N to 48.4°SFinal inclination 48.4°
Mass
200 kg
Operator
PVO
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
DS-P1
Programme
DS-P1-Yu C
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
1 year, 9 monthsCOSMOS 501’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1972-054
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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