CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1990-0002
COSMOS 103
COSMOS 103 (NORAD 1868) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 2 January 1990, after 24 years in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
1868
International designator
1965-112A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
28 Dec 1965Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
2 Jan 1990UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
24 years8,771 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
56.0°N to 56.0°SFinal inclination 56.0°
Mass
800 kg
Operator
OKB-10
Built by
OKB-10
Bus
Strela-2
Programme
Strela-2
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 56.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 56.0°N and 56.0°S.
Life in orbit
24 yearsCOSMOS 103’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 2 Jan 1990
1 entryFrom the same launch
1965-112
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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