CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1988-0820
COSMOS 118
COSMOS 118 (NORAD 2168) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 23 November 1988, after 22 years, 6 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
2168
International designator
1966-038A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
11 May 1966Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
23 Nov 1988UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
22 years, 6 months8,232 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
64.9°N to 64.9°SFinal inclination 64.9°
Mass
1,250 kg
Operator
VNIIEM
Built by
VNIIEM
Bus
Meteor
Programme
Meteor A
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
22 years, 6 monthsCOSMOS 118’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 23 Nov 1988
4 entriesFrom the same launch
1966-038
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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