CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1978-0009
COSMOS 801
COSMOS 801 (NORAD 8658) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 5 January 1978, after 1 year, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
8658
International designator
1976-012A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
5 Feb 1976Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
5 Jan 1978UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 year, 11 months700 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, 11 monthsCOSMOS 801’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 5 Jan 1978
3 entriesFrom the same launch
1976-012
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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