CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1980-0489
COSMOS 790
COSMOS 790 (NORAD 8604) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 12 November 1980, after 4 years, 9 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
8604
International designator
1976-007A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
22 Jan 1976Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
12 Nov 1980UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
4 years, 9 months1,756 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
73.9°N to 73.9°SFinal inclination 73.9°
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 73.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 73.9°N and 73.9°S.
Life in orbit
4 years, 9 monthsCOSMOS 790’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 12 Nov 1980
1 entryFrom the same launch
1976-007
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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