CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1982-0365
COSMOS 144
COSMOS 144 (NORAD 2695) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 14 September 1982, after 15 years, 6 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
2695
International designator
1967-018A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
28 Feb 1967Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
14 Sep 1982UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
15 years, 6 months5,677 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.1°N to 81.1°SFinal inclination 81.1°
Mass
1,250 kg
Operator
VNIIEM
Built by
VNIIEM
Bus
Meteor
Programme
Meteor B
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 81.1°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 81.1°N and 81.1°S.
Life in orbit
15 years, 6 monthsCOSMOS 144’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1967-018
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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