CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1992-0241
PION 5
PION 5 (NORAD 22099) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 25 September 1992, after 1 month in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
22099
International designator
1992-056C
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Russia
Launched
19 Aug 1992Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
25 Sep 1992UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 month37 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.5°N to 82.5°SFinal inclination 82.5°
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 82.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.5°N and 82.5°S.
Life in orbit
1 monthPION 5’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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