CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1989-0292
COSMOS 1813
COSMOS 1813 (NORAD 17297) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 13 March 1989, after 2 years, 1 month in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
17297
International designator
1987-004A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
15 Jan 1987Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
13 Mar 1989UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
2 years, 1 month788 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
72.8°N to 72.8°SFinal inclination 72.8°
Mass
2,655 kg
Operator
UNKS
Built by
TsSKB
Bus
Oblik
Programme
Oblik
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 72.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 72.8°N and 72.8°S.
Life in orbit
2 years, 1 monthCOSMOS 1813’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 13 Mar 1989
6 entriesFrom the same launch
1987-004Fragments of this object
194 on record
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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