CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1978-0256
COSMOS 189
COSMOS 189 (NORAD 3021) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 8 June 1978, after 10 years, 7 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
3021
International designator
1967-108A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
30 Oct 1967Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
8 Jun 1978UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
10 years, 7 months3,874 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
73.9°N to 73.9°SFinal inclination 73.9°
Mass
400 kg
Operator
Southern SDB
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
Tselina-O
Programme
Tselina-O
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 73.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 73.9°N and 73.9°S.
Life in orbit
10 years, 7 monthsCOSMOS 189’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 8 Jun 1978
1 entryFrom the same launch
1967-108
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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