CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1979-0225
COSMOS 1097
COSMOS 1097 (NORAD 11348) landed on 27 May 1979, after 1 month in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
11348
International designator
1979-037A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
27 Apr 1979Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Landed (UTC)
27 May 1979UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 month30 days
How it ended
Landed
Latitude range
62.8°N to 62.8°SFinal inclination 62.8°
Mass
2,886 kg
Operator
TsSKB
Built by
TsSKB
Bus
Yantar'-4K1
Programme
Oktan
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 62.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 62.8°N and 62.8°S.
Life in orbit
1 monthCOSMOS 1097’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 27 May 1979
1 entryFrom the same launch
1979-037
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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