CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1990-0203
COSMOS 1615
COSMOS 1615 (NORAD 15446) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 15 April 1990, after 5 years, 3 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
15446
International designator
1984-127A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
20 Dec 1984Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
15 Apr 1990UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
5 years, 3 months1,942 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
65.8°N to 65.8°SFinal inclination 65.8°
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 65.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 65.8°N and 65.8°S.
Life in orbit
5 years, 3 monthsCOSMOS 1615’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1984-127
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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