CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1982-0236
COSMOS 956
COSMOS 956 (NORAD 10375) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 June 1982, after 4 years, 9 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
10375
International designator
1977-095A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
24 Sep 1977Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
27 Jun 1982UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
4 years, 9 months1,737 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
75.8°N to 75.8°SFinal inclination 75.8°
Mass
1,800 kg
Operator
Southern SDB
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
GVM
Programme
Okean-E
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 75.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 75.8°N and 75.8°S.
Life in orbit
4 years, 9 monthsCOSMOS 956’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 27 Jun 1982
4 entriesFrom the same launch
1977-095
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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