CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1990-0217
COSMOS 1949
COSMOS 1949 (NORAD 19193) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 23 April 1990, after 1 year, 10 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
19193
International designator
1988-045A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
28 May 1988Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
23 Apr 1990UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 year, 10 months695 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
65.0°N to 65.0°SFinal inclination 65.0°
Mass
3,300 kg
Operator
Soviet Navy
Built by
Arsenal / Kometa
Bus
US-P
Programme
US-PU
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 65.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 65.0°N and 65.0°S.
Life in orbit
1 year, 10 monthsCOSMOS 1949’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 23 Apr 1990
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1988-045
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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