CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1992-0240
PION 6
PION 6 (NORAD 22100) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 24 September 1992, after 1 month in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
22100
International designator
1992-056D
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Russia
Launched
19 Aug 1992Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
24 Sep 1992UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 month36 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.6°N to 82.6°SFinal inclination 82.6°
Mass
50 kg
Operator
SGAU / RKA
Built by
SGAU
Bus
Pion
Programme
Pion
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 82.6°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.6°N and 82.6°S.
Life in orbit
1 monthPION 6’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1992-056
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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