CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1983-0446
METEOR 1-3
METEOR 1-3 (NORAD 4349) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 18 November 1983, after 13 years, 8 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
4349
International designator
1970-019A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
17 Mar 1970Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
18 Nov 1983UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
13 years, 8 months4,994 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
GUKOS RVSN / GMS
Built by
VNIIEM
Bus
Meteor
Programme
Meteor C
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
13 years, 8 monthsMETEOR 1-3’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 18 Nov 1983
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1970-019
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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