CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1978-0368
COSMOS 919
COSMOS 919 (NORAD 10070) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 28 August 1978, after 1 year, 2 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
10070
International designator
1977-051A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
18 Jun 1977Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
28 Aug 1978UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 year, 2 months436 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
71.0°N to 71.0°SFinal inclination 71.0°
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 71.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 71.0°N and 71.0°S.
Life in orbit
1 year, 2 monthsCOSMOS 919’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 28 Aug 1978
1 entryFrom the same launch
1977-051
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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