CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1988-0135
COSMOS 1786
COSMOS 1786 (NORAD 17042) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 6 March 1988, after 1 year, 4 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
17042
International designator
1986-080A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
22 Oct 1986Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
6 Mar 1988UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 year, 4 months501 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
64.8°N to 64.8°SFinal inclination 64.8°
Mass
750 kg
Operator
PVO
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
Taifun-1B
Programme
Yug
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 64.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.8°N and 64.8°S.
Life in orbit
1 year, 4 monthsCOSMOS 1786’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1986-080
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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