CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1988-0188
COSMOS 1881
COSMOS 1881 (NORAD 18343) was deorbited in a controlled re-entry on 30 March 1988, after 6 months in orbit.
Controlled re-entryOfficial date
NORAD number
18343
International designator
1987-076A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
11 Sep 1987Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
30 Mar 1988UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
6 months201 days
How it ended
Deorbited (controlled re-entry)
Latitude range
64.7°N to 64.7°SFinal inclination 64.7°
Mass
3,390 kg
Operator
UNKS
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 64.7°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.7°N and 64.7°S.
Life in orbit
6 monthsCOSMOS 1881’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 30 Mar 1988
3 entriesFrom the same launch
1987-076
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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