CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1982-0252
INTERCOSMOS 21
INTERCOSMOS 21 (NORAD 12162) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 7 July 1982, after 1 year, 5 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
12162
International designator
1981-011A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
6 Feb 1981Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
7 Jul 1982UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 year, 5 months516 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
74.0°N to 74.0°SFinal inclination 74.0°
Mass
995 kg
Operator
IK
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
AUOS
Programme
AUOS
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
1 year, 5 monthsINTERCOSMOS 21’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1981-011
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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