CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1985-0032
COSMOS 1612
COSMOS 1612 (NORAD 15406) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 31 January 1985, after 2 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
15406
International designator
1984-120A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
27 Nov 1984Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
31 Jan 1985UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
2 months65 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.5°N to 82.5°SFinal inclination 82.5°
Mass
1,750 kg
Operator
GMS
Built by
VNIIEM
Bus
Meteor-3
Programme
Meteor-3
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 82.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.5°N and 82.5°S.
Life in orbit
2 monthsCOSMOS 1612’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1984-120
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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