CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1983-0409
COSMOS 226
COSMOS 226 (NORAD 3282) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 18 October 1983, after 15 years, 4 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
3282
International designator
1968-049A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
12 Jun 1968Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
18 Oct 1983UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
15 years, 4 months5,606 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.1°N to 81.1°SFinal inclination 81.1°
Mass
1,280 kg
Operator
TsUKOS / GMS
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, 4 monthsCOSMOS 226’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1968-049
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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