CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1981-0012
COSMOS 1008
COSMOS 1008 (NORAD 10898) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 8 January 1981, after 2 years, 7 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
10898
International designator
1978-049A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
17 May 1978Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
8 Jan 1981UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
2 years, 7 months967 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-OK
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, 7 monthsCOSMOS 1008’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 8 Jan 1981
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1978-049
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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