CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1984-0496
COSMOS 1552
COSMOS 1552 (NORAD 14971) was deorbited in a controlled re-entry on 3 November 1984, after 5 months in orbit.
Controlled re-entryOfficial date
NORAD number
14971
International designator
1984-045A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
14 May 1984Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
3 Nov 1984UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
5 months173 days
How it ended
Deorbited (controlled re-entry)
Latitude range
64.9°N to 64.9°SFinal inclination 64.9°
Mass
3,390 kg
Operator
TsSKB
Built by
TsSKB
Bus
Yantar'-4KS1
Programme
Terilen
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 64.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.9°N and 64.9°S.
Life in orbit
5 monthsCOSMOS 1552’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1984-045
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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