CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1983-0077
COSMOS 1169
COSMOS 1169 (NORAD 11741) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 3 March 1983, after 2 years, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
11741
International designator
1980-023A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
27 Mar 1980Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
3 Mar 1983UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
2 years, 11 months1,071 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
65.8°N to 65.8°SFinal inclination 65.8°
Mass
570 kg
Operator
PVO
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
Vektor
Programme
Vektor1
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 65.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 65.8°N and 65.8°S.
Life in orbit
2 years, 11 monthsCOSMOS 1169’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 3 Mar 1983
5 entriesFrom the same launch
1980-023
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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