CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1990-0274
COSMOS 1450
COSMOS 1450 (NORAD 13972) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 30 May 1990, after 7 years, 1 month in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
13972
International designator
1983-027A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
6 Apr 1983Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
30 May 1990UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
7 years, 1 month2,611 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, 1 monthCOSMOS 1450’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1983-027
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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