CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1979-0317
INTERCOSMOS 16
INTERCOSMOS 16 (NORAD 9055) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 10 July 1979, after 2 years, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
9055
International designator
1976-076A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
27 Jul 1976Kapustin Yar
Re-entered (UTC)
10 Jul 1979UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
2 years, 11 months1,078 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
50.5°N to 50.5°SFinal inclination 50.5°
Mass
302 kg
Operator
IKI
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
DS-U3
Programme
DS-U3-IK
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 50.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 50.5°N and 50.5°S.
Life in orbit
2 years, 11 monthsINTERCOSMOS 16’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 10 Jul 1979
1 entryFrom the same launch
1976-076
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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