CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1991-0465
COSMOS 476
COSMOS 476 (NORAD 5852) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 25 October 1991, after 19 years, 7 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
5852
International designator
1972-011A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
1 Mar 1972Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
25 Oct 1991UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
19 years, 7 months7,177 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.1°N to 81.1°SFinal inclination 81.1°
Mass
1,750 kg
Operator
TsNII-108
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
Tselina-D
Programme
Tselina-D1
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
19 years, 7 monthsCOSMOS 476’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 25 Oct 1991
7 entriesFrom the same launch
1972-011
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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