CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1978-0444
COSMOS 933
COSMOS 933 (NORAD 10157) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 1 November 1978, after 1 year, 3 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
10157
International designator
1977-070A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
22 Jul 1977Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
1 Nov 1978UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 year, 3 months467 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
65.8°N to 65.8°SFinal inclination 65.8°
Mass
570 kg
Operator
PVO
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
Vektor
Programme
Vektor2
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 65.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 65.8°N and 65.8°S.
Life in orbit
1 year, 3 monthsCOSMOS 933’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 1 Nov 1978
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1977-070
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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