CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1989-0663
COSMOS 1179
COSMOS 1179 (NORAD 11796) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 18 July 1989, after 9 years, 2 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
11796
International designator
1980-037A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
14 May 1980Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
18 Jul 1989UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
9 years, 2 months3,352 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.9°N to 82.9°SFinal inclination 82.9°
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 82.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.9°N and 82.9°S.
Life in orbit
9 years, 2 monthsCOSMOS 1179’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 18 Jul 1989
1 entryFrom the same launch
1980-037
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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