CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1975-0213
INTERCOSMOS 12
INTERCOSMOS 12 (NORAD 7500) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 11 July 1975, after 8 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
7500
International designator
1974-086A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
31 Oct 1974Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
11 Jul 1975UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
8 months253 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
74.0°N to 74.0°SFinal inclination 74.0°
Mass
317 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 74.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 74.0°N and 74.0°S.
Life in orbit
8 monthsINTERCOSMOS 12’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1974-086
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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