CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1993-0052
COSMOS 1116
COSMOS 1116 (NORAD 11457) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 11 March 1993, after 13 years, 7 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
11457
International designator
1979-067A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
20 Jul 1979Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
11 Mar 1993UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
13 years, 7 months4,983 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
GRU
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 81.1°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 81.1°N and 81.1°S.
Life in orbit
13 years, 7 monthsCOSMOS 1116’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 11 Mar 1993
1 entryFrom the same launch
1979-067
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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