CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1974-0189
COSMOS 608
COSMOS 608 (NORAD 6941) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 10 July 1974, after 7 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
6941
International designator
1973-091A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
20 Nov 1973Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
10 Jul 1974UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
7 months232 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
71.0°N to 71.0°SFinal inclination 71.0°
Mass
200 kg
Operator
PVO
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
DS-P1
Programme
DS-P1-Yu A
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 71.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 71.0°N and 71.0°S.
Life in orbit
7 monthsCOSMOS 608’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1973-091
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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