CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1976-0006
COSMOS 725
COSMOS 725 (NORAD 7730) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 6 January 1976, after 8 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
7730
International designator
1975-026A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
8 Apr 1975Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
6 Jan 1976UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
8 months273 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-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 70.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 70.9°N and 70.9°S.
Life in orbit
8 monthsCOSMOS 725’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1975-026
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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