CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1980-0133
COSMOS 395
COSMOS 395 (NORAD 4955) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 6 April 1980, after 9 years, 1 month in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
4955
International designator
1971-013A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
17 Feb 1971Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
6 Apr 1980UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
9 years, 1 month3,336 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
74.0°N to 74.0°SFinal inclination 74.0°
Mass
434 kg
Operator
TsNII-108
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
9 years, 1 monthCOSMOS 395’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 6 Apr 1980
1 entryFrom the same launch
1971-013
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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