CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1980-0342
INTERCOSMOS 13
INTERCOSMOS 13 (NORAD 7710) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 2 September 1980, after 5 years, 5 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
7710
International designator
1975-022A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
27 Mar 1975Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
2 Sep 1980UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
5 years, 5 months1,986 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.8°N to 82.8°SFinal inclination 82.8°
Mass
320 kg
Operator
IK
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
DS-U2
Programme
DS-U2-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 82.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.8°N and 82.8°S.
Life in orbit
5 years, 5 monthsINTERCOSMOS 13’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 2 Sep 1980
1 entryFrom the same launch
1975-022
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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