CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1980-0123
COSMOS 500
COSMOS 500 (NORAD 6097) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 29 March 1980, after 7 years, 8 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
6097
International designator
1972-053A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
10 Jul 1972Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
29 Mar 1980UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
7 years, 8 months2,819 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
74.0°N to 74.0°SFinal inclination 74.0°
Mass
434 kg
Operator
GRU
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
Tselina-OM
Programme
Tselina-OM
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 74.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 74.0°N and 74.0°S.
Life in orbit
7 years, 8 monthsCOSMOS 500’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 29 Mar 1980
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1972-053
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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