CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1980-0444
COSMOS 960
COSMOS 960 (NORAD 10430) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 22 October 1980, after 2 years, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
10430
International designator
1977-103A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
25 Oct 1977Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
22 Oct 1980UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
2 years, 11 months1,093 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
2 years, 11 monthsCOSMOS 960’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 22 Oct 1980
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1977-103
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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