CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1991-0445
COSMOS 744
COSMOS 744 (NORAD 7968) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 11 October 1991, after 16 years, 3 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
7968
International designator
1975-056A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
20 Jun 1975Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
11 Oct 1991UTC calendar dayAlso recorded as 12 Oct 1991
Time in orbit
16 years, 3 months5,957 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.2°N to 81.2°SFinal inclination 81.2°
Mass
1,750 kg
Operator
TsNII-108
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
Tselina-D
Programme
Tselina-D
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 81.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 81.2°N and 81.2°S.
Life in orbit
16 years, 3 monthsCOSMOS 744’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1975-056
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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