CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1979-0396
COSMOS 72
COSMOS 72 (NORAD 1442) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 24 August 1979, after 14 years, 1 month in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
1442
International designator
1965-053B
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
16 Jul 1965Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
24 Aug 1979UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
14 years, 1 month5,152 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
56.0°N to 56.0°SFinal inclination 56.0°
Mass
50 kg
Operator
OKB-10
Built by
OKB-10
Bus
Strela-1 11F610
Programme
Strela-1
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 56.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 56.0°N and 56.0°S.
Life in orbit
14 years, 1 monthCOSMOS 72’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 24 Aug 1979
3 entriesFrom the same launch
1965-053
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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