CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1980-0142
COSMOS 479
COSMOS 479 (NORAD 5894) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 13 April 1980, after 8 years in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
5894
International designator
1972-017A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
22 Mar 1972Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
13 Apr 1980UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
8 years2,944 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
8 yearsCOSMOS 479’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 13 Apr 1980
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1972-017
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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