CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1991-0359
METEOR 1-9
METEOR 1-9 (NORAD 5327) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 August 1991, after 20 years, 1 month in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
5327
International designator
1971-059A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
16 Jul 1971Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
27 Aug 1991UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
20 years, 1 month7,347 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.1°N to 81.1°SFinal inclination 81.1°
Mass
1,280 kg
Operator
GUKOS RVSN / GMS
Built by
VNIIEM
Bus
Meteor
Programme
Meteor C
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 81.1°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 81.1°N and 81.1°S.
Life in orbit
20 years, 1 monthMETEOR 1-9’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 27 Aug 1991
1 entryFrom the same launch
1971-059
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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