CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1989-0382
COSMOS 1310
COSMOS 1310 (NORAD 12852) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 3 April 1989, after 7 years, 6 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
12852
International designator
1981-095A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
23 Sep 1981Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
3 Apr 1989UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
7 years, 6 months2,749 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
65.8°N to 65.8°SFinal inclination 65.8°
Mass
570 kg
Operator
PVO
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
Vektor
Programme
Vektor1
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 65.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 65.8°N and 65.8°S.
Life in orbit
7 years, 6 monthsCOSMOS 1310’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 3 Apr 1989
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1981-095
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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