CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1978-0356
COSMOS 822
COSMOS 822 (NORAD 8865) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 8 August 1978, after 2 years, 2 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
8865
International designator
1976-049A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
28 May 1976Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
8 Aug 1978UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
2 years, 2 months802 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
74.0°N to 74.0°SFinal inclination 74.0°
Mass
570 kg
Operator
PVO
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
Vektor
Programme
Vektor3
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
2 years, 2 monthsCOSMOS 822’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 8 Aug 1978
3 entriesFrom the same launch
1976-049
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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