CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1983-0378
COSMOS 379
COSMOS 379 (NORAD 4760) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 21 September 1983, after 12 years, 9 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
4760
International designator
1970-099A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
24 Nov 1970Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
21 Sep 1983UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
12 years, 9 months4,684 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
51.4°N to 51.4°SFinal inclination 51.4°
Mass
1,170 kg
Operator
TsKBEM
Built by
TsKBEM
Bus
T2K
Programme
T2K
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 51.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 51.4°N and 51.4°S.
Life in orbit
12 years, 9 monthsCOSMOS 379’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1970-099
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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